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A spring; a fountain. [Obs.] "Divers surges and springs of water." Ld. Berners.

Abounding in surges; surgy. "Tossing the surgeful tides." Drayton.

Free from surges; smooth; calm.

Rising; swelling, as a flood. [R.] Robert Greene.

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. 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 de…

The office or employment of a surgeon, as in the naval or military service.

Surgery. [Obs.]

A surgeon's operating room or laboratory.

Act of rising. The . . . assurgency of the spirit through the body. Coleridge.

Ascending; (Bot.)

A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection. A moral insurgence in the minds of grave men against the Court of Rome. G. Eliot.

itical authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. "The insurgent provinces." Motley.

The act of rising again; resurrection.

Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.

A surgeon fish.

Operative surgery.

orus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

enting putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery.

Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]