Suresby
(Sures"by) n. [Etymol. uncertain. See Rudesby.] One to be sure of, or to be relied on. [Obs.]
There is one which is suresby, as they say, to serve, if anything will serve.
Bradford. Suretiship
(Sure"ti*ship) n. Suretyship. Prov. xi. 15.
Surety
(Sure"ty) n.; pl. Sureties [OE. seurte, OF. seürté, F. sûreté. See Sure, Security.]
1. The state of being sure; certainty; security.
Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs.
Gen. xv. 13.
For the more surety they looked round about.
Sir P. Sidney. 2. That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
[We] our happy state
Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds;
On other surety none.
Milton. 3. Security against loss or damage; security for payment, or for the performance of some act.
There remains unpaid
A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which
One part of Aquitaine is bound to
us.
Shak. 4. (Law) One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable, and who is called the principal; one
who engages to answer for another's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or for performance
of some act; a bondsman; a bail.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Prov. xi. 15. 5. Hence, a substitute; a hostage. Cowper.
6. Evidence; confirmation; warrant. [Obs.]
She called the saints to surety,
That she would never put it from her finger,
Unless she gave it to yourself.
Shak. Surety
(Sure"ty), v. t. To act as surety for. [Obs.] Shak.
Suretyship
(Sure"ty*ship), n. The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answer for the debt,
default, or miscarriage of another. Bouvier.
Surf
(Surf) n. [Formerly spelled suffe, and probably the same word as E. sough.] The swell of the
sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.
Surf bird (Zoöl.), a ploverlike bird of the genus Aphriza, allied to the turnstone. — Surf clam (Zoöl.),
a large clam living on the open coast, especially Mactra, or Spisula, solidissima. See Mactra. — Surf
duck (Zoöl.), any one of several species of sea ducks of the genus Oidemia, especially O. percpicillata; —
called also surf scoter. See the Note under Scoter. — Surf fish (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species
of California embiotocoid fishes. See Embiotocoid. — Surf smelt. (Zoöl.) See Smelt. — Surf whiting.
(Zoöl.) See under Whiting.
Surf
(Surf), n. The bottom of a drain. [Prov. Eng.]
Surface
(Sur"face`) n. [F. See Sur-, and Face, and cf. Superficial.]
