Safe a. [Compar. Safer superl. Safest.]
 1. Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes. “And ye dwelled safe.”
    They escaped all safe to land.   --Acts xxvii. 44.
    Established in a safe, unenvied throne.   --Milton.
 2. Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc. “The man of safe discretion.”
 The King of heaven hath doomed
 This place our dungeon, not our safe retreat.   --Milton.
 3. Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe.
 But Banquo's safe?
 Ay, my good lord, safe in a ditch he bides.   --Shak.
 Safe hit Baseball, a hit which enables the batter to get to first base even if no error is made by the other side.
 Syn: -- Secure; unendangered; sure.


 Hit, n.
 1. A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
 So he the famed Cilician fencer praised,
 And, at each hit, with wonder seems amazed.   --Dryden.
 2. A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit; esp. A performance, as a musical recording, movie, or play, which achieved great popularity or acclaim; also used of books or objects of commerce which become big sellers; as, the new notebook computer was a big hit with business travellers.
 What late he called a blessing, now was wit,
 And God's good providence, a lucky hit.   --Pope.
 3. A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.
 4. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
 5. Baseball A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; -- sometimes used specifically for a base hit.
 Base hit, Safe hit, Sacrifice hit. Baseball See under Base, Safe, etc.

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