1. To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
Shak. 2. To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
Surfeit
(Sur"feit), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surfeited; p. pr. & vb. n. Surfeiting.]
1. To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce
satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; — often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
2. To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. V. Knox.
Surfeiter
(Sur"feit*er) n. One who surfeits. Shak.
Surfeit-water
(Sur"feit-wa`ter) n. Water for the cure of surfeits. [Obs.] Locke.
Surfel
(Sur"fel, Sur"fle) v. t. [Cf. Sulphur.] To wash, as the face, with a cosmetic water, said by some
to be prepared from the sulphur. [Obs.]
She shall no oftener powder her hair, [or] surfel her cheeks, . . . but she shall as often gaze on my
picture.
Ford. Surfer
(Surf"er) n. (Zoöl.) The surf duck. [U. S.]
Surfman
(Surf"man) n.; pl. Surmen One who serves in a surfboat in the life-saving service.
Surfoot
(Sur"foot`) a. Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. [Obs.] Nares.
Surfy
(Surf"y) a. Consisting of, abounding in, or resembling, surf; as, a surfy shore.
Scarce had they cleared the surfy waves
That foam around those frightful caves.
Moore. Surge
(Surge) n. [L. surgere, surrectum, to raise, to rise; sub under + regere to direct: cf. OF. surgeon,
sourgeon, fountain. See Regent, and cf. Insurrection, Sortie, Source.]
1. A spring; a fountain. [Obs.] "Divers surges and springs of water." Ld. Berners.
2. A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.
He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
James i. 6 (Rev. Ver.)
He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar,
Pursues the foaming surges to the shore.
Dryden. 3. The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.
4. The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
Surge
(Surge), v. i.
1. To swell; to rise hifg and roll.
The surging waters like a mountain rise.
Spenser. 2. (Naut.) To slip along a windlass.
