SURREPTION
SURREP'TION, noun [Latin surreptus, surrepo; sub and repo, to creep.]A coming unperceived; a stealing upon insensibly. [Little used.]
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SURREPTITIOUS
SURREPTI'TIOUS, adjective [Latin surreptitius, supra.] Done by stealth or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; as a surreptitious passage in a manuscript.A...
SURREPTITIOUSLY
SURREPTI'TIOUSLY, adverb By stealth; without authority; fraudulently.
SURROGATE
SUR'ROGATE, noun [Latin surrogatus, surrogo, subrogo; sub and rogo, to propose. Rogo, to ask or propose, signifies primarily to reach, put or thrust forward; and subrogo is to p...
SURROGATION
SURROGA'TION, noun The act of substituting one person in the place of another. [Little used.]
SURROUND
SURROUND', verb transitive [sur and round.]1. To encompass; to environ; to inclose on all sides; as, to surround a city. They surrounded a body of the enemy.2. To lie or be on a...
SURROUNDED
SURROUND'ED, participle passive Encompassed; inclosed; beset.
SURROUNDING
SURROUND'ING, participle present tense Encompassing; inclosing; lying on all sides of.
SURSOLID
SURSOL'ID, noun [sur and solid, or surdesolid.] In mathematics, the fifth power of a number; or the product of the fourth multiplication of a number considered as the root. Thus...
SURTOUT
SURTOUT, noun A man's coat to be worn over his other garments.
SURTURBRAND
SUR'TURBRAND, noun Fibrous brown coal or bituminous wood; so called in Iceland.
SURVENE
SURVE'NE, verb transitive To supervene; to come as an addition; as a suppuration that survenes lethargies. [Little used.]
SURVEY
SURVEY, verb transitive [Latin video, videre.]1. To inspect or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding c...
SURVEYED
SURVEYED, participle passive Viewed with attention; examined; measured.
SURVEYING
SURVEYING, participle present tense Viewing with attention; examining particularly; measuring.SURVEYING, noun That branch of mathematics which teaches the art of measuring land.
SURVEYOR
SURVEYOR, noun An overseer; one placed to superintend others.1. One that views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of any thing; as ...
SURVEYOR-GENERAL
SURVEYOR-GENERAL, noun A principal surveyor; as the surveyor-general of the king's manors, or of woods and parks in England. In the United Stats, the chief surveyor of lands; as...
SURVEYORSHIP
SURVEYORSHIP, noun The office of a surveyor.
SURVIEW
SURVIEW', verb transitive To survey. [Not in use.]SUR'VIEW, noun Survey. [Not in use.]
SURVISE
SURVI'SE, verb transitive To look over. [Not in use.]
SURVIVAL
SURVI'VAL, noun [See Survive.] A living beyond the life of another person, thing or event; an outliving.
SURVIVANCE
SURVI'VANCE, noun Survivorship. [Little used.]
SURVIVE
SURVI'VE, verb transitive [Latin supervivo.]1. To outlive; to live beyond the life of another; as, the wife survives her husband; or a husband survives his wife.2. To outlive an...
SURVIVENCY
SURVI'VENCY, noun A surviving; survivorship.
SURVIVER
SURVI'VER, noun One that outlives another. [See Survivor.]
SURVIVING
SURVI'VING, participle present tense Outliving; living beyond the life of another, or beyond the time of some event.1.adjective Remaining alive; yet living; as surviving friends...
SURVIVOR
SURVI'VOR, noun One who outlives another.1. In law, the longer liver of two joint tenants, or of any two persons who have a joint interest in any thing.