surmark

[Pref.sur- (2), and mark.] Shipbuilding: (1) A mark drawn on the timbers at the intersection of the molding-edge with the ribband-line; the stations of the ribbands and harpings being marked on the timbers. (2) A cleat temporarily placed on the outside of a rib, to give a hold to the ribband by which, through the shores, it is supported on the slipway. †sür-mas-ter, s . [Formed from Low Lat. sub magister =an under-master; cf. surrogate .] An under-master; the master of the lower division in an English public school. (Still used in St. Paul's School.) *sür-miş-a-bly, adv . [Eng. surmise; -ably.] By surmise; presumably. "Had you formed any opinion of what is surmisably the cause of death?"- London Daily Telegraph . *sür-miş-al, s. [Eng. surmis(e); -al.] The act IMG:content-0630.png:[blocks in formation] "All pride and envy, and all uncharitable surmisals ." Glanvill: Sermon i. *sür-miş-ant, s. [Eng. surmis(e); -ant.] One who surmises. "Her ladyship's informants, or rather surmisants."Richardson: Clari a, vi. 179. sür-mişe', *sur-myse, v. t. & i. [SURMISE, 8.] A. Transitive. *1. To charge; to accuse. "Surmysed agayne hym felony and murdoure."- Fab van: Cronycle, ch. ccxlii. 2. To gue or imagine to be the case, with but little ground or reason to go on; to conjecture, to suspect; to have a suspicion. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; B. Intransitive: surname *1. To charge; to make a charge or accusation. "He surmised to the king that his said secret friends had excited him to combine with his enemies." State Trials , 3 Edwd. III. (an. 1330). 2. To imagine, to conjecture, to suspect, to suppose. sür-mişe', s . [O. Fr. surmise an accusation, prop. fem. of surmis , pa. par. of surmettre to charge, to accuse; lit., to put upon: sur =upon and mettre to put.] *1. A charge, an accusation. "To relieve the truth, and to confound false surmises .' -Burnet : Records , vol. i., pt. i., bk. iii., No. 30. 2. The thought, imagination, suspicion, or conjecture that something may be, though based on no certain or strong evidence; conjecture, gue . "Many surmises of evil alarm the hearts of the people." Long fellow: Evangeline, i. 2. *3. Reflection, thought. "Being from the feeling of her own grief brought By deep surmise of others' detriment." Shakesp.: Rape of Lucrece , 1,579. sür-miş'-ēr, s. [Eng. surmis(e), v.; -er.] One who surmises. "I should first desire these surmisers to point out the time."- Lively Oracles , . (1678), p. 37. sür-miş'-ing, subst. [Eng. surmis(e); -ing.] A IMG:content-0631.png:[graphic] surmise. "Evil surmisinges and vayne dis put a cions."-1 Tim . vi. 4. (1551.) *sür-mit', *sur-myt, v . t. & i. [Fr. surmettre = to charge.] A. Trans.: To put forward, to charge. "The pretens bargayn that John Paston yn hys lyffe surmytted."- Paston Letters , ii. 323. B. In trans.: To surmise. "Only as in my dreame I did surmit." -Thynne: Debate, p. 67. sür-mount', v . t . [Fr. surmonter , from sur =over, above, and monter =to mount (q. v.).] 1. To mount or rise above; to overtop. "The mountains of Olympus, Atho, and Atlas, overreach and surmount all winds and clouds."- Raleigh : Hist . World. 2. To overcome, to conquer. "He set himself therefore to surmount some difficulties and to evade others." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xix. *3. To surpa , to exceed. "By which all earthly princes she doth far surmount." Spenser: F. Q., II. x. 1. For the difference between to surmount and to conquer , see CONQUER.