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.
Wildfire at Linville Gorge closes trails. Firefighters with the U.S. Forest Service are responding to a 10-acre wildfire burning near Shortoff Mountain at the south end of Linville Gorge, on the Grandfather Ranger District of Pisgah National Forest.