surfacer

[Eng. surfac ( e ), v.; -er.] 1. A machine for planing and giving a surface to wood. 2. One who digs for gold, ., in the surface soil. *surfe, *sur-fell, *sur-file, *sur-fyll, v. trans. [Prob. corrupted from sulphur .] To wash, as the face, with a cosmetic, supposed to have been prepared from sulphur. surgery surf-man-ship, s. [Eng. surfman; -ship.] The art of, or skill in managing a surf-boat (q. v.). sûrf-y, a . [Eng. surf (1), s.; -y.] Consisting in or abounding with surf; resembling surf; foaming. sürģe, s . [Lat. sur go to rise; O. Fr. so urge on = a spring.] I. Ordinary Language: *1. A rising, a spring, a fountain. "All great ryuers are gurged and a emblede of diuers surges and springes of water."-Berners. Froi art ; Cronycle, vol. i., ch. i. 2. A large wave or billow; a large rolling swell of water. *3. A swelling or rolling prominence. 4. The act or state of surging, or of heaving in an undulatory manner. II. Naut .: The swell on a windla -barrel upon which the cable or me enger surges or slips back. sürģe, v . i . . [ Lat.sur go =to rise.] A. Intransitive : *1. Ord. Lang.: To swell; to rise high and roll, as to the propositions of physics, the word surface is used in the ordinary geometric sense, that is, length and breadth without thickne [2], but when the abstract is modified into the concrete, the surface in physics has, in an indefinitely small amount or thickne , depth, a geometrical surface existing only as a mental conception. B. As adj .: Of or pertaining to the surface; situ. ated or being on the surface; external; hence, figuratively, superficial, specious, insincere; as, mere surface loyalty. For the difference between surface and super ficies see SUPERFICIES. (1) Curved surface : A surface which may be cut by a plane through any given point, so that the line of common section of the plane and surface may be a curve, as the surface of a sphere, cylinder, or cone. (2) Developable surface : A surface that can be unwrapped in a plane without any doubling of parts over one another, or separation, as the surface of the cylinder and cone. (3) Plane surface : [PLANE, S. , A. II. 2.] (4) Ruled surface : A surface described by the motion of a straight line, which neither remains parallel to a given line, nor always pa es through a given point, as a conoidal surface. (5) Tubular surface : A surface generated by a circle of a given radius, which moves with its cen ter on a given curve, and its plane at right angles to the tangent of that curve. (6) Und eve lop able surface : A surface that cannot be developed in the plane. surface-chuck, s. "She shall no oftener powder her hair, surfell her cheeks, cleanse her teeth, or conform the hairs of her eye-brows, ."-Ford: Love's Sacrifice , ii. 1. sür-felt, *sur-fet, *sur-feyte, v. t. & i. FELT, S.] A. Transitive : [SUR I. Lit .: To feed to exce so as to overload and oppre the stomach, and derange the functions of the system; to overfeed so as to produce sickne or nausea. II. Figuratively : *1. To overburden; to weigh down. "No more would watch, when sleepe so surfeited Their leaden ey-lids.' Chapman: Homer's Ody ey, ii. 2. To fill to satiety or disgust; to cloy. "To surfeit and injure ourselves by exce ive indul. gence."-Knox: Sermons, vol. vi., ser. 20. *B. Intransitive : IMG:content-0628.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Naut.: To slip back; as, A cable surges. B. Transitive: Naut.: To let go a portion (of a rope) suddenly; to slack (a rope) up suddenly when it renders round a pin, a winch, windla , or capstan. surge-fül, a. [ Eng.surge, s.; ful (l).] Full of, or abounding with surges; rough. "Like Thetis' goodly self majestically guides; Upon her spacious bed to ing the surgeful tides." Drayton: Polyolbion , s. 14. sürge'-le , *surge-le e, a. [Eng. surge , s.; -le .] Free from surges; smooth, calm. "In surgele e seas of quiet rest." Mirror for Magistrates.