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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..

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

Chorometry :: Chorometry (n.) The art of surveying a region or district.

Rodsman :: Rodsman (n.) One who carries and holds a leveling staff, or rod, in a surveying party..

Base :: Base (n.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles..

Outkeeper :: Outkeeper (n.) An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.

Surveyorship :: Surveyor (n.) In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port..

Perambulation :: Perambulation (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, 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..

Surveying :: Surveyed (imp. & p. p.) of Surve.

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

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

Odometer :: Odometer (n.) An instrument attached to the wheel of a vehicle, to measure the distance traversed; also, a wheel used by surveyors, which registers the miles and rods traversed..

Fanion :: Fanion (n.) A small flag for marking the stations in surveying.

Cairn :: Cairn (n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc..

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

Geodesy :: Geodesy (n.) That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To pass over and view; to survey carefully.

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

Demicircle :: Demicircle (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass..

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