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part of North Carolina. Population 10,366, including 1469 
slaves. 
SURRY, a county in the island of Jamaica, which con¬ 
tains seven parishes, the two towns of Kingston and Port 
Royal, and eight villages. 
SURSEE, a small town of the Swiss canton of Lucerne, 
on the river Sur, near the lake Sempach. It is well built, 
and contains 1000 inhabitants; 13 miles north-west of Lu¬ 
cerne, and 26 east of Soleure. 
SURSEFF, a small town of Tunis, in Africa, the ancient 
Sarsara ; 38 miles east of Kuirwan. 
SURSK, a small town of the east of European Russia, in 
the government of Simbirsk, on the river Sura; 77 miles 
north-north-east of Penza. 
SURSO'LID, s. [In Algebra] The fourth multiplication 
or power of any number whatever taken as the root. Tre - 
VOUT. 
SURSO'LID PROBLEM, s. [In Mathematics.] That 
which cannot be resolved but by curves of a higher nature 
than a conic section. Harris. 
SURSUTTY, a river of Hindostan. It rises in the moun¬ 
tains on the north-east boundary of the province of Delhi, 
and running to the south-west, is lost in the sands of Ajmeer. 
It is celebrated for being the scene of battle between Sultan 
Mohammed Ghory and the allied Hindoo chiefs, in the year 
1191, when the latter obtained a signal victory over their 
invaders.—It is the name of several other rivers in Hindostan. 
SURSUTTY, a town and fortress of Hindostan, province 
of Delhi. It is situated on the western bank of the above- 
mentioned river, and now belongs to an independent chief. 
It was first taken by the Mahometans in the year 1191. Lat. 
29. 13. N. long. 75. 27. E.—There is also a strong fortress 
of this name in the province of Cashmere. 
SURTOU'T, s. [Fr.] A large coat worn over all the rest. 
The surtout if abroad you wear. 
Repels the rigour of the air; 
Would you be warmer, if at home 
You had the fabric, and the loom ? Prior. 
SURUBIA, a river of Guiana, which runs south, and 
enters the Amazons between the strait of Pauxis and the 
river Curupatuba. 
To SURVE'NE, v. a. [survenir , Fr.] To supervene; 
to come as an addition.—Hippocrates mentions a suppura¬ 
tion that survenes lethargies, which commonly terminates 
in a consumption. Harvey. 
To SURVE'Y, v. a. [surveoir , old French.] To over¬ 
look ; to have under the view; to view as from a higher 
place. 
Round he surveys, and well might where he stood, 
So high above. - Milton. 
To oversee as one in authority. To view as examining. 
With alter’d looks 
All pale and speechless he survey'd me round. Dry den. 
To measure and estimate land or buildings. 
SU'RVEY, s. [The accent on this substantive is now, 
usually, on the first syllable; formerly, it was uniformly on 
the last.] View; prospect. 
Her stars in all their vast survey 
Useless besides! Milton. 
Superintendence. Mensuration; which see. 
SURVE'YAL, s. The same as survey.—The truth of 
this doctrine will further appear by the declaration and sur- 
veyal of those respects, according to which Christ is repre¬ 
sented the Saviour of men. Barrow. 
SURVEYOR, s. An overseer; one placed to superin¬ 
tend others. 
Were’t not madness then, 
To make the fox surveyor of the fold? Shakspeare. 
A measurer of land. 
Should we survey 
The plot of situation, and the model; 
S U S 
Question surveyors, know our own estate. 
How able such a work to undergo. 
To weigh against his opposite. Shakspeare. 
SURVEYORSIIIP, s. The office of a surveyor. 
To SURVI'EW, v. a. [surveoir, old French.] To over¬ 
look ; to have in view; to survey. Not in use. 
That turret’s frame most admirable was. 
Like highest heaven compassed a round. 
And lifted high above this earthly mass, 
Which is surview'd, as hills do lower ground. Spenser. 
SURVI'EW, s. Survey. Obsolete. —After some sur- 
view of the state of the body, he is able to inform them. 
Sanderson. 
To SURVI'SE, v. a. To look over. Not in use. —The 
most vile and ridiculous escutcheon that ever this eye sur- 
vis'd. B. Jonson. 
SURVI'VAL, or Survi'vance, s. [survivance, Fr. 
Hume has somewhere used survivancy. Survivance is the 
old word; survival, modern.] Survivorship.—His son had 
the survivance of the stadtholdership. Burnet. 
To SURVI'VE, v. n. [supervivo, Lat.; survivre, Fr.] 
To live after the death of another. 
I’ll assure her of 
Her widowhood, be it that she survives me, 
In all my lands and leases whatsoever. Shakspeare. 
To live after any thing.—Now that he is dead, his immor¬ 
tal fame surviveth, and flourisheth in the mouths of all 
people. Spenser. —To remain alive. 
No longer now that golden age appears, 
When patriarch-wits surviv'd a thousand years; 
Now length of fame, our second life, is lost. 
And bare threescore is all ev’n that can boast; 
Our sons their father’s failing language see, 
And such as Chaucer is, shall Dryden be. Pope. 
To SURVI'VE, v. a. To outlive.—The rhapsodies, called 
the Characteristicks, would never have survived the first 
edition, if they had not discovered so strong a tincture of 
infidelity. Watts. 
SURVI'VER, or Survi'vor, s. One who outlives an¬ 
other. 
Your father lost a father. 
That father his; and the survivor bound 
In filial obligation, for some term. 
To do obsequious sorrow. Shakspeare. 
SURVI'VERSHIP,'or Survivorship, s. The state of 
outliving another.—Such offices granted in reversion were 
void, unless where the grant has been by survivorship. 
Ayliffe. 
SURY LE COMTAT, a town in the east of France, de¬ 
partment of the Loire, with 1800 inhabitants; 12 miles 
north-west of St. Etienne, and 6 south-east of Montbrison. 
SUS, the Hog, in Zoology, a genus of the class and order 
mammalia belluse, of which the Generic Character is as 
follows:—The four upper fore-teeth are convergent; the 
lower six are prominent; the two upper tusks are shorter, 
the two lower standing out; the snout prominent; truncate, 
and moveable; and the feet are mostly cloven. The indi¬ 
viduals of this genus dig in the earth with the snout, which 
is furnished at the end with a strong, round cartilage; they 
feed indifferently upon almost every thing, even the most 
filthy ; they wallow in the mire, and are in general extremely 
prolific. 
1. Sus scrofa, or hog.—Back bristly on the fore part; the 
tail is hairy. There are two varieties:—-1. Tail hairy; 
ears short, roundish; being the wild hog:—2. Tail hairy; 
ears long, acute; being the common hog ; which is sub¬ 
divided into those that have their hoofs undivided; and 
into those whose backs are nakedish, belly reaching almost 
to the groumd.—This is the Chinese hog, as it is denomi¬ 
nated. 
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