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  • English Word Surceaseance Definition Cessation.
  • English Word Surcharge Definition To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.
  • English Word Surcharge Definition To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone.
  • English Word Surcharge Definition To show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given.
  • English Word Surcharge Definition An overcharge; an excessive load or burden; a load greater than can well be borne.
  • English Word Surcharge Definition The putting, by a commoner, of more beasts on the common than he has a right to.
  • English Word Surcharge Definition The showing an omission, as in an account, for which credit ought to have been given.
  • English Word Surcharged Definition of Surcharge
  • English Word Surchargement Definition The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus.
  • English Word Surcharger Definition One who surcharges.
  • English Word Surcharging Definition of Surcharge
  • English Word Surcingle Definition A belt, band, or girth which passes over a saddle, or over anything laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.
  • English Word Surcingle Definition The girdle of a cassock, by which it is fastened round the waist.
  • English Word Surcingled Definition Bound with the surcingle.
  • English Word Surcle Definition A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.
  • English Word Surcloy Definition To surfeit.
  • English Word Surcloyed Definition of Surcloy
  • English Word Surcloying Definition of Surcloy
  • English Word Surcoat Definition 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.
  • English Word Surcoat Definition A name given to the outer garment of either sex at different epochs of the Middle Ages.
  • English Word Surcrew Definition Increase; addition; surplus.
  • English Word Surculate Definition To purne; to trim.
  • English Word Surculation Definition Act of purning.
  • English Word Surculose Definition Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers.
  • English Word Surd Definition Net having the sense of hearing; deaf.
  • English Word Surd Definition Unheard.
  • English Word Surd Definition Involving surds; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd expression or quantity; a surd number.
  • English Word Surd Definition Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180.
  • English Word Surd Definition A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers; thus, Ã2 is a surd.
  • English Word Surd Definition A surd element of speech. See Surd, a., 4.