a. poet. rare. [f. SURGE sb. + -FUL.] Full of surges or billows.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., i. 212. Her soveraigne when shee sees t’approach the surgefull deepe. Ibid., xiv. 214. Upon her spacious breast tossing the surgefull tides.
1877. Blackie, Wise Men, 192. Upon that surgeful sea where you are launched.
