a. [f. SURGE sb. + -Y.] Full of or abounding in surges; pertaining to or characteristic of surges; billowy, tempestuous. Also fig.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 69. Throgh surgye waters with mee too seek ther auenturs.
1602. Marston, Ant. & Mel., IV. Wks. 1856, I. 46. Was ever prince … With louder shouts of tryumph launched out Into the surgy maine of government?
1658. E. Phillips, Myst. Love, Gen. Lud. 37. Streames rumbling, surgy, chiding.
1773. Beattie, Triumph Melancholy, xlvii. We roll With headlong haste along life’s surgy stream.
1818. Keats, Endym., I. 121. The surgy murmurs of the lonely sea.
1820. Wainewright, Ess. & Crit. (1880), 45. By them eight white soft-sliding hours … ride with surgy velocity on a trail of volleying clouds.
