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Episcopy :: Episcopy (n.) Survey; superintendence.

Bone :: Bone (v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying..

Camp :: Camp (n.) The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc..

Course :: Course (n.) Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race..

View :: View (v. t.) To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects..

Review :: Review (n.) A second or repeated view; a reexamination; a retrospective survey; a looking over again; as, a review of one's studies; a review of life..

Blaze :: Blaze (n.) A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark..

Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.

Perambulator :: Perambulator (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer..

Surveyor :: Surveying (n.) That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys..

Arpentator :: Arpentator (n.) The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor..

Dialing :: Dialing (n.) A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor..

Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.

Reconnaissance :: Reconnaissance (n.) An examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character.

View :: View (n.) The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

Dial :: Dial (v. t.) To survey with a dial.

Surveyor :: Surveyor (n.) One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.

Azimuth :: Azimuth (n.) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying..

Survey :: Survey (v. t.) To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurments, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry; as, to survey land or a coast..

Surveyance :: Surveyal (n.) Survey.

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