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The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodg 3. In biol., the fact of the continued existence of some forms of animal and vegetable life after the time when certain related forms have become extinct; also, the law or underlying principle of such continued existence, as by the proce of natural selection: in either case son i. E. P. Wright. more fully called survival of the fittest, and by implication noting the extinction of other organisms le fitted or unfit to survive the struggle for existence. Survival in this sense simply extends the ordinary application of the word from the individual organism to the species, genus, etc., and takes into account geological as well as historical times. See under selection and species. - Survival of the fit test, a phrase used by Herbert Spencer to indicate the proce or result of natural selection (which see, under selection). Plants depend for their prosperity mainly on air and light.. Natural selection will favour the more upright-growing forms; individuals with structures that lift them above the rest are the fittest for the conditions; and by the continual survival of the fittest such structures must become established. H. Spencer , Prin. of Biol., § 193. survivance (ser-vi'vans), n. [ survivance , survivant , ppr. of survivre , survive: see sur vive .] Survivorship. [Rare.] and to examine and from time to time, and particularly on the first Mondays in January and July in each year, try the weights, etc., and correct them according to the standards. At ports to which a surveyor only is appointed, it is his duty also to receive and record copies of all manifests transmitted to him by the collector, to record permits granted by the collector, distinguishing gage, weight, measure, etc., of goods specified, and to take care that no goods be unladen without proper permit. - Surveyors' chain. See chain, 3. - Surveyors' cro , an instrument used by surveyors to establish perpendicular lines. It has four sights set at right angles on a bra cro which can be fastened to a tripod or single staff. When the adjustment of the instrument is such that one pair of sights coincides with a given or base line, a line perpendicular to this can be readily observed or traced by means of the other pair of sights. - Surveyors' level. See level1.- Surveyors' pole, a pole usually marked off into foot spaces for convenience in measuring, these being painted in strongly contrasted colors, that it may be readily distinguished from surrounding objects at a distance. It is used in ranging lines. His son had the survivance of the stadtholder-ship. Bp . Burnet , Hist. Own Times. ( Latham . ) (see -cy).] Same as survivance. Bp. Burnet. ( Imp . Dict .) survive (sér-viv'), v.; pret. and pp. survived , ppr. surviving . [ survivre = Pr. sobreviure = Sp. sobrevivir = Pg. sob reviver = It. sopravvi vere , live longer than, supervivere , outlive, super , over, + vivere , live: see vivid . Cf. devive, revive.] I. trans. To outlive; live or exist beyond the life or existence of; outlast beyond some specified point of time, or some given person, thing, event, or circumstance: as, to survive one's usefulne . If thou survive my well-contented day, When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover. Shak ., Sonnets, xxxii. sus2,