surfeit (serf it)

[Early mod. E. also surfait, surfet; Mowth and tongge avoydyng alle outrage, A-gayne the vice of fals detraccion, To do no surfett in word ne langage. surge surfman ship (serf'man-ship), n. The art or skill of a surfman; skill in managing a surf- boat. [Rare.] Until 1871... surfman ship was not a standard of quali- The Century , XIX. 334. fication. surfrappé (F. pron. sür-fra-pā'), a . [F., frappé , pp. of frapper , strike: see frape .] In numis., restruck: noting a coin restruck, whether by the city or monarch that originally i ued it, or by some other city or monarch, with new types and inscriptions, so as to obliterate wholly or partly the original designs on the coin. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 28. surf-scoter (sérf'skō"ter), n. The surf-duck, The sicknes that follow eth our intemperate surfait . Sir T. More, Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 15. This daughter that I tell you of is fall'n A little crop-sick with the dangerous surfeit She took of your affection. Contentious suits. surfeit of courts. .. Fletcher , Tamer Tamed, v. 1. ought to be spewed out as the Bacon, Judicature (ed. 1887). Thou tak'st a surfeit where thou should'st but taste. Quarles, Emblems, i. 12. Your Loathing is not from a want of Appetite, then, but from a Surfeit . Congreve, Way of the World, iii. 7. 2. Fullne and oppre ion of the system, occasioned by exce ive eating and drinking. Too much a surfeit breeds, and may our Child annoy; These fat and luscious meats do but our stomachs cloy. Drayton, Polyolbion, xv. 49. 3. Disgust caused by exce ; satiety; nausea. Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit, on the excellency of our own govern ment. Burke . =Syn. Repletion, plethora. See the verb. surfeit (sèr'fit), v. [Early mod. E. also surfet ; The surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores. Edemia (or Pelionetta ) per spic ill at a, a large seaduck of the subfamily Fuligulinæ, common in North America, chiefly coastwise, and casual in Europe. The length is from 18 to 21 inches, the extent 31 to 36. The male is black, without white on the wings, but with a frontal and a nuchal white area; the bill is variegated with whitish, pinkish, and orange, and has a large black blotch on each side at the base. The female is sooty-brown, silvery-gray below, with whitish loral and auricular areas on the sides of the head. The young male resembles the female. It abounds in the United States in winter, and breeds in high latitudes. The flesh is fishy, and scarcely eatable. See scoter, and cut under Pelionetta. surf-smelt (sérf's melt), n. An argentinoid fish, Hypomesus pretiosus, about 12 inches long, of a light olivaceous color with silvery lateral line, abundant on the Pacific coast of the United States from California northward, spawning in the surf. See Argent i nidæ and smelt. surfult, surfulingt. See surphul, etc. surf us i on (ser-fūzhon), n. A state of liquefaction when existing at a temperature below that of the normal melting-point (that is, freezing-point) for the given substance. Thus, under grees below the usual freezing-point, and still remain liquid. Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., XXXIX. 230. certain conditions, water may be cooled a number of de