SPage 995
- English Word Surety Definition One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail.
- English Word Surety Definition Hence, a substitute; a hostage.
- English Word Surety Definition Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
- English Word Surety Definition To act as surety for.
- English Word Suretyship Definition The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another.
- English Word Surf Definition The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.
- English Word Surf Definition The bottom of a drain.
- English Word Surface Definition 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.
- English Word Surface Definition Hence, outward or external appearance.
- English Word Surface Definition A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.
- English Word Surface Definition That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
- English Word Surface Definition To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.
- English Word Surface Definition To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.
- English Word Surfaced Definition of Surface
- English Word Surfacer Definition A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
- English Word Surfacing Definition of Surface
- English Word Surfboat Definition 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.
- English Word Surfeit Definition Excess in eating and drinking.
- English Word Surfeit Definition Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
- English Word Surfeit Definition Disgust caused by excess; satiety.