SURCHARGE
SURCH'ARGE, verb transitive1. To overload; to overburden; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.Your head reclin'd, as hiding grief from view,Droops like a r...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SURCHARGED
SURCH'ARGED, participle passive Overloaded; overstocked.
SURCHARGER
SURCH'ARGER, noun One that overloads or overstocks.
SURCHARGING
SURCH'ARGING, participle present tense Overloading; burdening to excess; overstocking with cattle or beasts.
SURCINGLE
SUR'CINGLE, noun [Latin cingulum, a belt.]1. A belt, band or girth which passes over a saddle, or over any thing laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.2. The girdle of a cassoc.
SURCINGLED
SUR'CINGLED, adjective Girt; bound with a surcingle.
SURCLE
SUR'CLE, noun [Latin surculus.] A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.
SURCOAT
SUR'COAT, noun A short coat worn over the other clothes.
SURCREW
SUR'CREW, noun [sur and crew.] Additional crew or collection. [Not in use.]
SURCULATE
SUR'CULATE, verb transitive [Latin surculo.] To prune. [Not in use.]
SURCULATION
SURCULA'TION, noun The act of pruning. [Not in use.]
SURD
SURD, adjective [Latin surdus, deaf.] Deaf; not having the sense of hearing. [Not used.]1. Upheard. [Not used.]2. Designating a quantity whose root cannot be exactly expressed i...
SURDITY
SURD'ITY, noun Deafness. [Not used.]
SURE
SURE, adjective shure. [Latin assevero, and to be connected with swear, and perhaps with Latin verus; s being the remains of a prefix.]1. Certain; unfailing; infallible.The test...
SUREFOOTED
SUREFOOT'ED, adjective [sure and foot.] Not liable to stumble or fall; as a surefooted horse.
SURELY
SU'RELY, adverb Certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly.In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:17.He that created something out of nothing, surely can raise...
SURENESS
SU'RENESS, noun Certainty.For more sureness he repeats it. [Little used.]
SURETISHIP
SU'RETISHIP, noun [from surety.] The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for another, and make good any debt or loss which may occur from another's delin...
SURETY
SU'RETY, noun Certainty; indubitableness.Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs-- Genesis 15:13.1. Security; safety.Yet for the more sur...
SURF
SURF, noun The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, or upon sand banks or rocks.1. In agriculture, the bottom or conduit of a drain. [Local.]
SURFACE
SUR'FACE, noun The exterior part of any thing that has length and breadth; one of the limits that terminates a solid; the superficies; outside; as the surface of the earth; the ...
SURFEIT
SURFEIT, verb transitive sur'fit. [Latin facio.]1. To feed with meat or drink, so as to oppress the stomach and derange the functions of the system; to overfeed and produce sick...
SURFEIT-WATER
SUR'FEIT-WATER, noun [surfeit and water.] Water for the cure of surfeits.
SURFEITED
SUR'FEITED, participle passive Surcharges and oppressed with eating and drinking to excess; cloyed.
SURFEITER
SUR'FEITER, noun One who riots; a glutton.
SURFEITING
SUR'FEITING, participle present tense Oppressing the system by excessive eating and drinking; cloying; loading or filling to disgust.SUR'FEITING, noun The act of feeding to exce...
SURGE
SURGE, noun [Latin surgo, to rise.]1. A large wave or billow; great rolling swell of water. [It is not applied to small waves, and is chiefly used in poetry and eloquence.]He fl...