surge (serj)

[ surge All great ryuers are gurged and a emblede of diuers surges and springes of water. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., L. i. 2. A large wave or billow; a great rolling swell of water; also, such waves or swells collectively: literally or figuratively. All the sea, disturbed with their traine, Doth frie with fome above the surges hore. Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 15. Caverns and tunnels into which the surge is for ever booming. A. Geikie, Geol. Sketches, ii. Surge leaping after surge , the fire roared onward red as blood. Lowell , Incident of Fire at Hamburg. 3. The act of surging, or of heaving in an undulatory manner.-4. In ship - building, the tapered part in front of the whelps, between the chocks of a capstan, on which a rope may surge.-5. Any change of barometric level which is not due to the pa age of an area of low pre ure or to diurnal variation. Abercrom by. Syn. 2. See wavel. surgeful (sérj'fül), a. [