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.
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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.
To surname.
To impose an additional tax on.
A man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat.
A fibrous brown coal or bituminous wood.
See Bush master, under Bush.
Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision.
Overseeing; watchful.
To supervene upon; to come as an addition to.
A sudden or unexpected coming or stepping on.
The act of surveying; a general view, as from above.
Survey.
Survey; inspection.
That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys.
One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
The office of a surveyor.
A survey.
To look over; to supervise.
A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.
Survivorship.
To remain alive; to continue to live.
Survivorship.
One who survives; a survivor.
Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.
One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing.
The state of being a survivor.
The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.
Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.
The act of taking; reception.
Susceptible.
Capacity for receiving; susceptibility.
One who undertakes anything; specifically, a godfather; a sponsor; a guardian.
Admission.
One who takes or admits; one who receives.
Capability of being suscitated; excitability.
To rouse; to excite; to call into life and action.
The act of raising or exciting.
A ground squirrel (Spermophilus citillus) of Europe and Asia. It has large cheek pouches.
To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
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