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One of the sections or chapters of the Koran, which are one hundred and fourteen in number.

A valuable kind of wood obtained on the shores of the Demerara River in South America, much used for timbers, rails, naves and fellies of wheels, and the like.

Something added or appended, as to a name. [Obs.] Shak.

A soft twilled silk fabric much used for women's dresses; -- called also surah silk.

Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the sural arteries.

Assurance. [Obs.] Shak.

The surangular bone.

Same as Admeasurement.

spire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence. Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts xvii. 31. Assurances of support came pouring in daily. Macaulay.

An enemy of the gods, esp. one of a race of demons and giants.

of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the cæsural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.

Of or pertaining to a cæsura. Cæsural pause, a pause made at a cæsura.

Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct. -- Cen"sur*a*bleness, n. -- Cen"sur*a*bly, adv.

See Cæsura.

See Cæsural.

Insurance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance…

Having the same measure; commensurate; proportional. She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had one. I. Walton.

The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.

y measured by the same number, quantity, or measure. -- Com*men"su*ra*ble*ness, n. Commensurable numbers or quantities (Math.), those that can be exactly expressed by some common unit; thus a foot and yard are commensurable, since both can be expressed in terms of an inch, one being 12 inches, the other 36 inches. --…

In a commensurable manner; so as to be commensurable.