subs. (old).—A dependable person: cf. RUDESBY, WIGSBY, etc.

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  1586.  WITHALS, Dictionary, 564. Lydius sive Herculeus lapis; hee is old SUREBY.

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  1611.  CORYATE, Crudities, i. 42. Old SURESBYES to serve for all turnes.

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  1614.  Terence in English. You are the same man that you were: old SUREBIE, no flinsher.

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  d. 1657.  J. BRADFORD, Sermon on Repentance [Parker Society (1853), v. 63]. Yes; there is one which is SURESBY (as they say) to serve if any thing will serve.

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