n. Act of rising. [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . assurgency of the spirit through the body. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. assurgens, p. pr. of assurgere; ad + surgere to rise. ] Ascending; (Bot.) rising obliquely; curving upward. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. surgery that is not essential, especially surgery to correct a condition that is not life-threatening; surgery that is not required for survival. See also cosmetic surgery. [ PJC ]

{ } n. A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection. [ 1913 Webster ]

A moral insurgence in the minds of grave men against the Court of Rome. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. insurgent. ] A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.

Syn. -- See Rebel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. insurgens, p. pr. of insurgere to rise up; pref. in- in + surgere to rise. See Surge. ] Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. “The insurgent provinces.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Surgery using lasers. [ PJC ]

n. (Med.) Surgery performed within the mouth cavity, especially that performed around the gums and teeth as an expedient for the purpose of preservation or replacement of teeth. [ PJC ]

n. The act of rising again; resurrection. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. resurgens, -entis, p. pr. of resurgere. See Resurrection. ] Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rises again, as from the dead. [ R. ] Sydney Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A surgeon fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. James i. 6 (Rev. Ver.) [ 1913 Webster ]

He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar,
Pursues the foaming surges to the shore. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The motion of, or produced by, a great wave. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To swell; to rise hifg and roll. [ 1913 Webster ]

The surging waters like a mountain rise. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) To slip along a windlass. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Surged p. pr. & vb. n. Surging ] [ Cf. F. surgir to cast anchor, to land. Cf. Surge, n. ] (Naut.) To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding in surges; surgy. “Tossing the surgeful tides.” Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from surges; smooth; calm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. surgens, p. pr. ] Rising; swelling, as a flood. [ R. ] Robert Greene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. surgien, OF. surgien, contr. fr. chirurgien. See Chirurgeon. ] 1. One whose profession or occupation is to cure diseases or injuries of the body by manual operation; one whose occupation is to cure local injuries or disorders (such as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of chaetodont fishes of the family Teuthidae, or Acanthuridae, which have one or two sharp lancelike spines on each side of the base of the tail. Called also surgeon fish, doctor fish, lancet fish, and sea surgeon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Surgeon apothecary, one who unites the practice of surgery with that of the apothecary. Dunglison. --
Surgeon dentist, a dental surgeon; a dentist. --
Surgeon fish. See def. 2, above. --
Surgeon general. (a) In the United States army, the chief of the medical department. (b) In the British army, a surgeon ranking next below the chief of the medical department. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or employment of a surgeon, as in the naval or military service. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Surgery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. surgenrie, surgerie; cf. OF. cirurgie, F. chirurgie, L. chirurgia, Gr. &unr_;. See Surgeon. ] 1. The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A surgeon's operating room or laboratory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Surgical fever. (Med.) (a) Pyaemia. (b) Traumatic fever, or the fever accompanying inflammation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By means of surgery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling. “Over the surgy main.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]