in Medicine, a sickness with a sensation of a load at the stomach, usually proceeding from some error in diet, either with regard to the quantity or quality of the food taken. Sometimes, however, a surfeit is only a plethora from indolence and full diet: in which case perpiration is defective; and eruptions appear on the skin.

Fasting for some time, and an attention to temperance afterwards, with some brisk purgatives, will generally remove the effects of a surfeit, when it is unaccompanied with other more permanent affections.

in Farriery. See FARRIERY Index.