named, with a caftle, formerly an imperial refidence. It lies 170 miles S. of Meaco. Lon. 139. 5. E. Lat. 3. 30. N.

SURISTAN, the modern name of SYRIA, among the Turks.

SURKNEY, n. J. An upper garment Afb. SURKUK, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia; 8 miles N. of Caftamena.

* SURLILY. adv. [from furly.] In a furly

manner.

* SURLINESS. n. f. [om furly. Gloomy morofeness; four anger.

In dumb furlines, each arm'd with care His foe profeft, as brother of the war. Dryden. * SURLING. n. 7. [from furly.] A four morofe fellow. Not ufed.-Thefe four furlings are to be commended to fieur Goulard. Cambden.

SURLINGHAM, a fmail town of England, in Norfolk, SE. of Norwich, between St Mary's and St Saviour's.

SURLY. adj. [from fur, four, Saxon.] Gloomily morofe; rough; uncivil; four; filently angry.

'Tis like you'll prove a jolly furly groom. Sh. That furly fpirit, melancholy, Had bak'd thy blood, and made it heavy. Shak. Against the Capitol I met a lion, Who glar'd upon me, and went furly by, Without annoying me.

Shak.

Repuls'd by furly grooms, who wait before The fleeping tyrant's interdicted door. Dryden. What if among the courtly tribe You loft a piace, and fav'd a bribe? And then in furly mood came here?

Swift.

The zephers floating loofe, the timely rains, Now foften'd into joy the furly ftorms. Thomf. SURMA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Farfiftan: 32 miles N. of Schirauz.

SURMICHA, n. f. in old law records, a loaf of coarse white bread; (Bailey.) Or of the middle fort. Alh.

* SURMISE. n. f. [furmife, French.] Imperfect notion; fufpicion; imagination not fupported by knowledge.-To let go private furmifes, whereby the thing itfelf is not made better or worfe. Hook.

They were by the law of that proud tyrannefs,

Provok'd with wrath, and envy's false furmife. Spenjer.

My compaffionate heart

Will not permit my eyes once to behold
The thing, whereat it trembles by furmife. Sh.
My thought, whofe murthering yet is but
fantaftical,

Shakes fo my fingie ftate of man, that function Is fmother'd in furmise. Shak. -They were of opinion that they fled towards their fhipping: this furmife was occafioned, for that the Englifh fhips removed the day before. Hayward.—

We double honour gain From his furmife prov'd falfe.

Hence guilty joys, distastes, furmises, Falfe oaths falfe tears, deceits.

Milton.

Pope.

-No man ought to be charged with principles he actually difowns, unless his practifes contradict his profession; not upon small furmifes. Swift. To SURMISE. v. a. furmife, French.] To fufpect; to imagine imperfectly; to imagine without certain knowledge.-Man coveteth what exceedeth the reach of fenfe; fomewhat divine and heavenly, which with hidden exultation it rather furmifeth than conceiveth. Hooker.-Of queftions and ftrifes of words cometh envy, railings and evil furmifings. 1 Tim. vi. 4.— Surmife not

His prefence to these narrow bounds confin'd. Milton. It wafted nearer yet, and then she knew That what before the but furmis'd, was true. Dryden. -This change was not wrought by altering the form or pofition of the earth, as was furmised by a very learned man, but by diffolving it. Woodward.

*To SURMOUNT. v. a. [furmonter, Fr. 1. To rife above. The mountains Olympus, Athos, and Atlas, over reach and furmount all winds and clouds. Raleigh. 2. To conquer; to overcome.-The English had much ado to furmount the natural difficulties of the place the greater part of one day. Hayward.—He hardly efcaped to the Perfian court; from whence, if the love of his country had not furmounted its base ingratitude to him, he had many invitations to return at the head of the Perfian fleet. Szvift. 3. furpafs; to exceed.

What furmounts the reach Of human fenfe, I shall delineate. Milton. * SURMOUNTABLE. adj. [from furmeant.] Conquerable; fuperable.

SURMOUNTED, part. adj. in heraldry, is when one figure is laid over another.

* SURMOUNTER. #{from furmount) One that rifes above another.

* SURMOUNTING. n. f. The act of getting uppermoft. (1.)

SURMULLET. n. f. [ mugil, Lat.] A fort of fish. Afworth.

(2.) SURMULLET. See MULLUS. Dr Abraham Rees, in his edition of Chambers's Cyclopædia, SURMULLET is a name used both by the French and English for the MULLUS MAJOR, a fish of the Cuculus kind, and in the Linnæan Syftem, the MULLUS cirris geminis, &c. in many things refembling the MULLUS Barbatus, but twice as big, being often 12 or 14 inches in length. Its fins are yellowish, and have a light blush of red. Its fcales are large, broad and thick, and firmly joined to the flesh. It has alfo 3 or 4 ftraight yellow lines, running parallel down its fides. It is caught in the Mediterranean, and in the British seas, especial ly on the coaft of Cornwall, and is efteemed a very delicate fifh. Ray. M. Pennant calis this fpecies of MULLUS, the STRIPED SURMULLET; but he doubts, whether this is not a variety, as Gronovius apprehends, of the Lod Surmullet, or Mullus barbatus. This laft, was esteemed by the Romans, and bore a very high price. See Hor. Sat. lib. Sect. 2. 33. and Juv. Sat. iv."