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

Perambulate :: Perambulate (v. t.) To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line..

Transit :: Transit (n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit..

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

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

Surveyal :: Survey (n.) The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of, as any part of the earth's surface, whether land or water; also, a measured plan and description of any portion of country, or of a road or line through it..

Map :: Map (v. t.) To represent by a map; -- often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business..

Triangulation :: Triangulation (n.) The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them..

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..

Stadtholder :: Stadium (n.) A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends; especially (Surveying), a graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope; -- also called stadia, and stadia rod..

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

Reconnaissance :: Reconnaissance (n.) An examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.

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..

Station :: Station (n.) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying..

Chorograph :: Chorograph (n.) An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc..

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

View :: View (n.) Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case..

Theodolite :: Theodolite (n.) An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed..

Command :: Command (n.) Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey..

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