Adverb

(en-adv)

In a safe manner; without risk; using caution above all else.

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With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely : what you see is what you get

In a secure manner; without the possibility of injury or harm resulting.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}

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It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way.

Adverb

(en adverb)

In a cautious manner.