Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 201
Surplice (n.) (Eccl.) 【宗】白袈裟；斜疊襟；斜襟衣；白色法衣；白袈裟；小白衣；聖職人員或教友參加宗教儀式時，所穿的短小之白色衣服 A white garment worn over another dress by the clergy of the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and certain other churches, in some of their ministrations.
Surplice fees (Eccl.), Fees paid to the English clergy for occasional duties.
Surplice (n.) A loose-fitting white ecclesiastical vestment with wide sleeves.
Surplice (n.) A loose white outer ecclesiastical vestment usually of knee length with large open sleeves.
Surplice (a.) 斜疊的 Having a diagonally overlapping neckline or closing.
// A surplice collar.
// Surplice sweaters.
Surpliced (a.) Wearing a surplice.
Clothed (a.) 穿……衣服的；覆蓋著……的，披上……的；clothe 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Wearing clothing. [Narrower terms: adorned(predicate), bedecked(predicate), decked(predicate), decked out(predicate); appareled, attired, clad, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed; arrayed, panoplied; breeched, pantalooned, trousered; bundled-up; caparisoned; cassocked: costumed: decent] [Narrower terms: dight] [Narrower terms: dressed-up, dressed to the nines(predicate), dressed to kill(predicate), dolled up, spruced up, spiffed up] [Narrower terms: gowned] [Narrower terms: habited] [Narrower terms: heavy-coated] [Narrower terms: overdressed] [Narrower terms: petticoated] [Narrower terms: red-coated, lobster-backed] [Narrower terms: surpliced] [Narrower terms: togged dressed esp in smart clothes)] [Narrower terms: turned out] [Narrower terms: underdressed] [Narrower terms: uniformed] [Narrower terms: vestmented] Also See: adorned, decorated. Antonym: unclothed.
Clothed (a.) Covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak. fog-cloaked meadows
Syn: cloaked, draped, mantled, wrapped.
Surpliced (a.) Wearing a surplice.
Surplus (n.) That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus.
Surplus (n.) Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
Surplus (a.) Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
Surplusage (n.) Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.
Surplusage (n.) Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected.
Surplusage (n.) A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.
Surprisal (n.) The act of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise.
Surprise (n.) [U] 驚奇，吃驚；[C] 偷襲，奇襲 The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.
Surprise (n.) The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion excited by what is sudden and strange; a suddenly excited feeling of wonder or astonishment.
Surprise (n.) Anything that causes such a state or emotion.
Surprise (n.) A dish covered with a crust of raised paste, but with no other contents.
Surprised (imp. & p. p.) of Surprise.
Surprising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surprise.
Surprise (v. t.) 使驚奇，使感到意外；奇襲 To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack.
Surprise (v. t.) To strike with wonder, astonishment, or confusion, by something sudden, unexpected, or remarkable; to confound; as, his conduct surprised me.
Surprise (v. t.) To lead (one) to do suddenly and without forethought; to bring (one) into some unexpected state; -- with into; as, to be surprised into an indiscretion; to be surprised into generosity.
Surprise (v. t.) To hold possession of; to hold.
Surprisement (n.) Surprisal.
Surpriser (n.) One who surprises.
Surprising (a.) 令人驚訝的 Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger.
Surprisingly (adv.) 令人驚訝地 In a surprising manner; "he was surprisingly friendly"
Surprisingly (adv.) In an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise; "amazingly, he finished medical school in three years" [syn: {amazingly}, {surprisingly}, {astonishingly}].
Surquedous (a.) Alt. of Surquedrous.
Surquedrous (a.) Having or exhibiting surquedry; arrogant; insolent.
Surquedry (n.) Alt. of Surquidry.
Surquidry (n.) Overweening pride; arrogance; presumption; insolence.
Surrebound (v. i.) To give back echoes; to reecho.
Surrebut (v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.
Surrebuter (n.) The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.
Surrein (v. t.) To override; to exhaust by riding.
Surrejoin (v. i.) To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
Surrejoinder (n.) The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.
Surrendered (imp. & p. p.) of Surrender.
Surrendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surrender.
Surrender (v. t.) （常後接oneself）使投降，使自首 [（+to）]；交出，放棄 To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.
Surrender (v. t.) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
To surrender up that right which otherwise their founders might have in them. -- Hooker.
Surrender (v. t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep.
Surrender (v. t.) (Law) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.
Surrender (v. i.) 投降，自首 To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.
Surrender (n.) 投降，屈服；自首 [U] [C]；引渡，讓渡；交出；放棄 [U] The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.
That he may secure some liberty he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. -- Burke.
Surrender (n.) (Law) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
Surrender (n.) (Law) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
Surrender (n.) (Law) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition. -- Wharton.
Surrender (n.) (Insurance) The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value).
Surrender (n.) Acceptance of despair [syn: resignation, surrender].
Surrender (n.) A verbal act of admitting defeat [syn: giving up, yielding, surrender].
Surrender (n.) The delivery of a principal into lawful custody.
Surrender (n.) The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort" [syn: capitulation, fall, surrender].
Surrender (v.) Give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another; "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered" [syn: surrender, give up] [ant: hold out, resist, stand firm, withstand].
Surrender (v.) Relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in" [syn: surrender, cede, deliver, give up].
Surrender, () estates, conveyancing. A yielding up of an estate for life or years to him who has an immediate estate in reversion or remainder, by which the lesser estate is merged in the greater by mutual agreement, Co. Litt. 337, b.
Surrender, () A surrender is of a nature directly opposite to a release; for, as the latter operates by the greater estate descending upon the less, the former is the falling of a less estate into a greater, by deed. A surrender immediately divests the estate of the surrenderer, and vests it in the surrenderee, even without the assent (q.v.) of the latter. Touchs. 300, 301.
Surrender, () The technical and proper words of this conveyance are, surrender and yield up; but any form of words; by which the intention. of the parties is sufficiently manifested, will operate as a surrender, Perk. Sec. 607; 1 Term Rep. 441; Com. Dig. Surrender, A.
Surrender, () The surrender may be express or implied. The latter is when an estate, incompatible with the existing estate, is accepted or the lessee takes a new lease of the same lands. 16 Johns. Rep. 28; 2 Wils. 26; 1 Barn. & A. 50; 2 Barn. & A. 119; 5 Taunt. 518, and see 6 East, R. 86; 9 Barn. & Cr. 288 7 Watts, R. 128. Vide, generally, Cruise, Dig. tit. 32, c. 7; Com. Dig. h.t.; Vin. Ab. h.t.; 4 Kent, Com. 102; Nels. Ab. h.t.; Rolle's Ab. h.t. 11 East, R. 317, n.
Surrender, () The deed or instrument by which a surrender is made, is also called a surrender. For the law of presumption of surrenders, see Math. on Pres. ch. 13, p. 236; Addis. on Contr. 658-661.
Surrenderee (n.) The person to whom a surrender is made. -- Mozley & W.
Surrenderee. () One to whom a surrender has been made.
Surrenderer (n.) One who surrenders.
Surrenderor (n.) (Law) One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. -- Bouvier.
Surrendry (n.) Surrender. [Obs.]
Surreption (n.) The act or process of getting in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth.
Fame by surreption got May stead us for the time, but lasteth not. -- B. Jonson.
Surreption (n.) A coming unperceived or suddenly.
Surreptitious (a.) 祕密的；偷偷摸摸的；鬼鬼祟祟的 Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods. -- Sur`rep*ti"tious*ly, adv.
Surreptitious (a.) Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" [syn: {furtive}, {sneak(a)}, {sneaky}, {stealthy}, {surreptitious}].
Surreptitious (a.) Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn: {clandestine}, {cloak-and-dagger}, {hole-and-corner(a)}, {hugger-mugger}, {hush-hush}, {secret}, {surreptitious}, {undercover}, {underground}].
Surreptitious. () That which is done in a fraudulent stealthy manner.
Surreptitiously (adv.) 祕密地；暗中地；不正當地；偷偷地 In a surreptitious manner; "he was watching her surreptitiously as she waited in the hotel lobby" [syn: {surreptitiously}, {sneakily}].
Surrey (n.) A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.
Surrey (n.) A county in southeastern England on the Thames
Surrey (n.) A light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; has two or four seats.
Surrey, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 917
Housing Units (2000): 313
Land area (2000): 0.972363 sq. miles (2.518409 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007995 sq. miles (0.020707 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.980358 sq. miles (2.539116 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77180
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 48.237055 N, 101.133035 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58785
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Surrey, ND
Surrey
Surrogate (n.) A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.
Surrogate (n.) The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses. [Eng.]
Surrogate (n.) In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.
Surrogate (n.) A surrogate mother.
Surrogate (v. t.) To put in the place of another; to substitute. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.
Surrogate (a.) Providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father" [syn: foster, surrogate].
Surrogate (n.) Someone who takes the place of another person [syn: surrogate, alternate, replacement].
Surrogate (n.) A person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others [syn: deputy, surrogate].
Surrogate. () In some of the states, as in New Jersey, this is the name of an officer who has jurisdiction in granting letters testamentary and letters of administration.
Surrogate. () In some states, as in Pennsylvania, this officer is called register of wills and for granting letters, of administration in others, as in Massachusetts, he is called judge of probates.
Surrogateship (n.) The office of a surrogate.
Surrogation (n.) The act of substituting one person in the place of another. [R.] -- Killingbeck.
Surrounded (imp. & p. p.) of Surround.
Surrounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surround.
Surround (v. t.) 包圍，環繞，圍繞 To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
Surround (v. t.) To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city.
But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. -- Milton.
Surround (v. t.) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Surround (v. t.) (Mil.) To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
Syn: To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about.
Surround (n.) 圍繞物 A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc. [U.S.] -- Baird.
Surround (n.) The area in which something exists or lives; "the country -- the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environment, environs, surroundings, surround].
Surround (v.) Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" [syn: surround, environ, ring, skirt, border].
Surround (v.) Envelop completely; "smother the meat in gravy" [syn: smother, surround].
Surround (v.) Surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna" [syn: besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent].
Surround (v.) Surround with a wall in order to fortify [syn: wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround].
Surrounding (a.) Inclosing; encircling.
Surrounding (n.) An encompassing.
Surrounding (n.) pl. The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.
Surrounding (a.) Closely encircling; "encompassing mountain ranges"; "the surrounding countryside" [syn: encompassing(a), surrounding(a), circumferent].
Surroyal (n.) (Zool.) One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
Sursanure (n.) A wound healed or
healing outwardly only. [Obs.]
Of a sursanure In surgery is perilous the cure. -- Chaucer.
Surseance (n.) Peace; quiet. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Sursolid (n.) (Math.) The fifth power of a number; as, a/ is the sursolid of a, or 32 that of 2. [R.] -- Hutton.
Surstyle (v. t.) To surname. [R.]
Surtax (n.) An additional or extra tax.
Surtax (v. t.) To impose an additional tax on.
Surtax (n.) An additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed [syn: surtax, supertax].
Surtax (v.) Levy an extra tax on; "surtax luxury items that cost more than $1,000".
Surtout (n.) A man's coat to be worn over his other garments; an overcoat, especially when long, and fitting closely like a body coat. -- Gay.
Surtout (n.) A man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat.
Surturbrand (n.) A fibrous brown coal or bituminous wood.
Surucucu (n.) (Zool.) See Bush master, under Bush.
Surveillance (n.) 看守；監視；監督；檢查 Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision.
That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have accused the old. -- Sir W. Scott.
Surveillance (n.) Close observation of a person or group (usually by the police).
Surveillants (n. pl. ) of Surveillant.
Surveillant (n.) 監視者 One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.
Surveillant (a.) Overseeing; watchful.
Survened (imp. & p. p.) of Survene.
Survening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Survene.
Survene (v. t.) To supervene upon; to come as an addition to.
Survenue (n.) A sudden or unexpected coming or stepping on.
Surveyed (imp. & p. p.) of Survey.
Surveying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Survey.
Survey (v. t.) 俯視，眺望，環視；全面考察（或研究）；概括論述；測量，勘測，測繪；審視；檢視（建築物等）；檢驗（設備等）； 調查，向……作調查 [H]； (v. i.) 測量，勘測，測繪 To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.
Round he surveys and well might, where he stood, So high above. -- Milton.
Survey (v. t.) To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
With such altered looks, . . . All pale and speechless, he surveyed me round. -- Dryden.
Survey (v. t.) To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of; as, to survey a building in order to determine its value and exposure to loss by fire.
Survey (v. t.) To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry; as, to survey land or a coast.
Survey (v. t.) To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same. [Eng.] -- Jacob (Law Dict.).
Survey (n.) The act of surveying; a general view, as from above. Under his proud survey the city lies. -- Sir J. Denham.
Survey (n.) 調查；調查報告；民意調查（測驗）[U] [C]； 全面的考察；概觀，概論 [C]；測量，勘測，測繪；測量圖 [U] [C]；檢視，檢驗 [C]；俯瞰；察看 [C] A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of all the parts or particulars of a thing, with a design to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality; as, a survey of the stores of a ship; a survey of roads and bridges; a survey of buildings.
Survey (n.) The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of, as any part of the earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it.
Survey of dogs. See Court of regard, under Regard.
Trigonometrical survey, A survey of a portion of country by measuring a single base, and connecting it with various points in the tract surveyed by a series of triangles, the angles of which are carefully measured, the relative positions and distances of all parts being computed from these data.
Syn: Review; retrospect; examination; prospect.
Survey (n.) A detailed critical inspection [syn: survey, study].
Survey (n.) Short descriptive summary (of events) [syn: sketch, survey, resume].
Survey (n.) The act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited" [syn: view, survey, sight].
Survey (v.) Consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting" [syn: survey, appraise].
Survey (v.) Look over carefully or inspect; "He surveyed his new classmates".
Survey (v.) Keep under surveillance; "The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing" [syn: surveil, follow, survey].
Survey (v.) Hold a review (of troops) [syn: review, go over, survey].
Survey (v.) Make a survey of; for statistical purposes.
Survey (v.) Plot a map of (land).
Survey, () The act by which the quantity of a piece of land is ascertained; the paper containing a statement of the courses, distances, and quantity of land, is also called a survey.
Survey, () A survey made by authority of law and duly returned into the land office, is a matter of record, and of equal dignity with the patent. 3 Marsh. 226; 2 J. J. Marsh, 160. See 3 Greenleaf, 126; 5 Greenleaf, 24; 14 Mass. 149 1 Harr. & John. 20 1 1 Overt. 199; 1 Dev. & Bat. 76.
Survey, () By survey is also understood an examination; as, a survey has been made of your house, and now the insurance company will insure it.
Surveyal (n.) Survey. [R.] -- Barrow.
Surveyance (n.) Survey; inspection. [R.]
Surveying (n.) That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys.
Geodetic surveying, Geodesy.
Maritime surveying, or Nautical surveying, That branch of surveying which determines the forms of coasts and harbors, the entrances of rivers, with the position of islands, rocks, and shoals, the depth of water, etc.
Plane surveying. See under Plane, a.
Topographical surveying, That branch of surveying which involves the process of ascertaining and representing upon a plane surface the contour, physical features, etc., of any portion of the surface of the earth.
Surveying (n.) The practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map; "he studied surveying at college".
Surveyor (n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
Were 't not madness then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold? -- Shak.
Surveyor (n.) One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc.