Vocabulary : Surreption to Surrow

Surreption : The act or process of getting in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth. ;; A coming unperceived or suddenly.
Surreptitious : Done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently; clandestine; stealthy; as, a surreptitious passage in an old manuscript; a surreptitious removal of goods.
Surrey : A four-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.
Surrogate : A deputy; a delegate; a substitute. ;; The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses. ;; In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates. ;; To put in the place of another; to substitute.
Surrogateship : The office of a surrogate.

Surrogation : The act of substituting one person in the place of another.
Surround : To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ. ;; To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city. ;; To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. ;; To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. ;; A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc.
Surrounded : of Surround
Surrounding : of Surround ;; Inclosing; encircling. ;; An encompassing. ;; The things which surround or environ; external or attending circumstances or conditions.
Surrow : The thar.

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