| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| surance | noun | Assurance. |
| surbase | noun | A cornice, or series of moldings, on the top of the base of a pedestal, podium, etc. See Illust. of Column., A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs. |
| surbate | verb t. | To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel., To harass; to fatigue. |
| surbeat | verb t. | Same as Surbate. |
| surcloy | verb t. | To surfeit. |
| surcoat | noun | 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., A name given to the outer garment of either sex at different epochs of the Middle Ages. |
| surcrew | noun | Increase; addition; surplus. |
| surdiny | noun | A sardine. |
| surdity | noun | Deafness. |
| suresby | noun | One to be sure of, or to be relied on. |
| surface | noun | 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., Hence, outward or external appearance., A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface., That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion., To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain., To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold. |
| surfeit | noun | Excess in eating and drinking., Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking., Disgust caused by excess; satiety., To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess., To indulge to satiety in any gratification., 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., To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. |
| surfman | noun | One who serves in a surfboat in the life-saving service. |
| surfoot | adjective | Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. |
| surging | present participle & vb. noun | of Surge |
| surgent | adjective | Rising; swelling, as a flood. |
| surgeon | noun | 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., 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. |
| surgery | noun | 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., A surgeon’s operating room or laboratory. |
| suricat | noun | Same as Zenick. |
| surlily | adverb | In a surly manner. |
| surling | noun | A sour, morose fellow. |
| surloin | noun | A loin of beef, or the upper part of the loin. See Sirloin, the more usual, but not etymologically preferable, orthography. |
| surmark | noun | A mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed. |
| surmise | noun | A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy., Reflection; thought., To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess. |
| surname | noun | A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name., An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen., To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to. |
| surpass | verb t. | To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. |
| surphul | verb t. | To surfel. |
| surplus | noun | That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus., Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government., Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words. |
| surrein | verb t. | To override; to exhaust by riding. |
| surtout | noun | A man’s coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat. |
| survene | verb t. | To supervene upon; to come as an addition to. |
| surview | verb t. | To survey; to make a survey of., A survey. |
| survise | verb t. | To look over; to supervise. |
| survive | verb t. | To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event., To remain alive; to continue to live. |