Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 200

Surety (n.) Hence, a substitute; a hostage.

Surety (n.) Evidence; confirmation; warrant.

Surety (v. t.) To act as surety for.

Suretyship (n.) The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another.

Surf (n.) The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.

Surf (n.) The bottom of a drain.

Surface (n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.

Surface (n.) Hence, outward or external appearance.

Surface (n.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.

Surface (n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.

Surfaced (imp. & p. p.) of Surface

Surfacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surface

Surface (v. t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.

Surface (v. t.) To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.

Surfacer (n.) A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.

Surfboat (n.) 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.

Surfeit (n.) Excess in eating and drinking.

Surfeit (n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.

Surfeit (n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.

Surfeit (v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.

Surfeit (v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.

Surfeited (imp. & p. p.) of Surfeit

Surfeiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surfeit

Surfeit (v. t.) 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.

Surfeit (v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.

Surfeiter (n.) One who surfeits.

Surfeit-water (n.) Water for the cure of surfeits.

Surfel (v. t.) Alt. of Surfle

Surfle (v. t.) To wash, as the face, with a cosmetic water, said by some to be prepared from the sulphur.

Surfer (n.) The surf duck.

Surmen (pl. ) of Surfman

Surfman (n.) One who serves in a surfboat in the life-saving service.

Surfoot (a.) Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed.

Surfy (a.) Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf; as, a surfy shore.

Surge (n.) A spring; a fountain.

Surge (n.) A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.

Surge (n.) The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.

Surge (n.) The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.

Surge (v. i.) To swell; to rise hifg and roll.

Surge (v. i.) To slip along a windlass.

Surged (imp. & p. p.) of Surge

Surging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surge

Surge (n.) To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).

Surgeful (a.) Abounding in surges; surgy.

Surgeless (a.) Free from surges; smooth; calm.

Surgent (a.) Rising; swelling, as a flood.

Surgeon (n.) 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.

Surgeon (n.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon.

Surgeoncy (n.) The office or employment of a surgeon, as in the naval or military service.

Surgeonry (n.) Surgery.

Surgery (n.) 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.

Surgery (n.) A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

Surgical (a.) Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.

Surgically (adv.) By means of surgery.

Surgy (a.) Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling.

Suricat (n.) Same as Zenick.

Surinam toad () A species of toad native of Surinam. See Pipa.

Surintendant (n.) Superintendent.

Surlily (adv.) In a surly manner.

Surliness (n.) The quality or state of being surly.

Surling (n.) A sour, morose fellow.

Surloin (n.) A loin of beef, or the upper part of the loin. See Sirloin, the more usual, but not etymologically preferable, orthography.

Surly (a.) Arrogant; haughty.

Surly (a.) Gloomily morose; ill-natured, abrupt, and rude; severe; sour; crabbed; rough; sullen; gloomy; as, a surly groom; a surly dog; surly language; a surly look.

Surly (a.) Rough; dark; tempestuous.

Surmark (n.) A mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed.

Surmisable (a.) Capable of being surmised; as, a surmisable result.

Surmisal (n.) Surmise.

Surmise (n.) A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

Surmise (n.) Reflection; thought.

Surmised (imp. & p. p.) of Surmise

Surmising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surmise

Surmise (v. t.) To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.

Surmiser (n.) One who surmises.

Surmising () a. & n. from Surmise, v.

Surmounted (imp. & p. p.) of Surmount

Surmounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surmount

Surmount (v. i.) To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.

Surmount (v. i.) To conquer; to overcome; as, to surmount difficulties or obstacles.

Surmount (v. i.) To surpass; to exceed.

Surmountable (a.) Capable of being surmounted or overcome; superable.

Surmounted (a.) Having its vertical height greater than the half span; -- said of an arch.

Surmounted (a.) Partly covered by another charge; -- said of an ordinary or other bearing.

Surmounter (n.) One who, or that which, surmounts.

Surmullet (a.) 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.

Surmulot (n.) The brown, or Norway, rat.

Surname (n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.

Surname (n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.

Surnamed (imp. & p. p.) of Surname

Surnaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surname

Surname (v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.

Surnominal (a.) Of or pertaining to a surname or surnames.

Suroxidate (v. t.) To combine with oxygen so as to form a suroxide or peroxide.

Suroxide (n.) A peroxide.

Surpassed (imp. & p. p.) of Surpass

Surpassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surpass

Surpass (v. t.) To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.

Surpassable (a.) That may be surpassed.

Surpassing (a.) Eminently excellent; exceeding others.

Surphul (v. t.) To surfel.

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