Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds. The surangular bone.
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A cornice, or series of moldings, on the top of the base of a pedestal, podium, etc. See Illust. of Column.
Having a surbase, or molding above the base. Having the vertical height from springing line to crown less than the half span; -- said of an arch; as, a segmental arch is surbased.
To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel.
Same as Surbate.
To set edgewise, as a stone; that is, to set it in a position different from that which it had in the quarry.
Surbated; bruised.
To cease.
Cessation.
An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.
The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus.
One who surcharges.
A belt, band, or girth which passes over a saddle, or over anything laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.
Bound with the surcingle.
A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.
To surfeit.
A coat worn over the other garments; especially, the long and flowing garment of knights, worn over the armor, and frequently emblazoned with the arms of the wearer.
Increase; addition; surplus.
To purne; to trim.
Act of purning.
Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers.
A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers; thus, /2 is a surd.
Same as Surd, a., 3.
A sardine.
Deafness.
In a sure manner; safely; certainly.
Not liable to stumble or fall; as, a sure-footed horse.
In a sure or certain manner; certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly; assuredly.
A making sure; surety.
The state of being sure; certainty.
One to be sure of, or to be relied on.
Suretyship.
To act as surety for.
The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another.
The bottom of a drain.
To rise from the depths of a liquid to the surface; as, the submarine surfaced to recharge its batteries.
A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
A boat intended for use in heavy surf. It is built with a pronounced sheer, and with a view to resist the shock of waves and of contact with the beach.
To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
Water for the cure of surfeits.
One who surfeits.
The surf duck.
To wash, as the face, with a cosmetic water, said by some to be prepared from the sulphur.
One who serves in a surfboat in the life-saving service.
Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed.
Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf; as, a surfy shore.
To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).
Abounding in surges; surgy.
Free from surges; smooth; calm.
Rising; swelling, as a flood.
One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.
The office or employment of a surgeon, as in the naval or military service.
Surgery.
The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.
Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.
By means of surgery.
Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.
A South African mongooselike viverrine (Suricata suricatta or Suricata tetradactyla) having a lemurlike face and only four toes; called also mierkat, yellow mongoose and zenick.
A species of toad native of Surinam. See Pipa.
Superintendent.
In a surly manner.
The quality or state of being surly.
A sour, morose fellow.
A loin of beef, or the upper part of the loin. See Sirloin, the more usual, but not etymologically preferable, orthography.
Arrogant; haughty.
A mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed.
Capable of being surmised; as, a surmisable result.
Surmise.
To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
One who surmises.
a. n. from Surmise, v.
To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.
Capable of being surmounted or overcome; superable.
Having its vertical height greater than the half span; -- said of an arch.
One who, or that which, surmounts.
Any one of various species of mullets of the family Millidae, esp. the European species (Millus surmulletus), which is highly prized as a food fish. See Mullet.
The brown, or Norway, rat.
To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.
Of or pertaining to a surname or surnames.
To combine with oxygen so as to form a suroxide or peroxide.
A peroxide.
To go beyond in anything good or bad; to perform (an activity) better than; to exceed; to excel.
That may be surpassed.
Eminently excellent; exceeding others.
To surfel.
A white garment worn over another dress by the clergy of the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and certain other churches, in some of their ministrations.
Wearing a surplice.
Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.
The act of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise.
To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack.
Surprisal.
One who surprises.
Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger.
Having or exhibiting surquedry; arrogant; insolent.
Overweening pride; arrogance; presumption; insolence.
To give back echoes; to reecho.
To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.
The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.
To override; to exhaust by riding.
To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.
The person to whom a surrender is made.
One who surrenders.
One who makes a surrender, as of an estate.
Surrender.
The act or process of getting in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth.
Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods.
A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.
To put in the place of another; to substitute.
a person or who serves in place of the biological mother for child, as for caring or nurturing.
The office of a surrogate.
The act of substituting one person in the place of another.
A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
An encompassing.
The thar.
One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
A wound healed or healing outwardly only.
Peace; quiet.
The fifth power of a number; as, a/ is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2.
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