Replacing sikerte (early 15c.), from an earlier borrowing from Latin; earlier in the sense security was sikerhede (early 13c.); sikernesse (c.1200). Meaning something which secures is from 1580s; safety of a state, person, etc. is from 1941. Legal sense of property in bonds is from mid-15c.; that of document held by a creditor is from 1680s. Phrase security blanket in figurative sense is attested from 1966, in reference to the crib blanket carried by the character Linus in the Peanuts comic strip (1956).
Clifton Gorge. The Clifton Gorge Nature Preserve is located in south western Ohio near the town of Clifton. Here the Little Miami river races through a 40 foot deep rocky limestone gorge. The 269 acre preserve is adjacent to John Bryan State Park. There is a pair of trails that follow the rim of the gorge, and a trail through the gorge.
The county was erected May 1, 1803, from Hamilton County, and named for Dr. Joseph Warren, a hero of the Revolution who sent Paul Revere on his ride and who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Warren County is part of the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. Along with Butler County, Warren County comprises the geographical center of the Cincinnati-Dayton Metropolitan Region, home to 3.3 million and the 14th most populous in the United States.