surveyor (servaor)

[ surveour; as survey + -orl.] 1. One who surveys or views. [Rare.] The brightest of stars appear the most unsteady and tremulous in their light: not from any quality inherent in themselves, but from the vapors that float below, and from the imperfection of vision in the surveyor . Landor, Diogenes and Plato. 2. An overseer; a superintendent. [Rare.] Were't not madne , then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold? Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 253. 3t. A household officer; a supervisor of the other servants. Babees Book (E. E. Tт. T. S.), P. 317.-4. One who views and examines something for the purpose of ascertaining its condition, quantity, or quality: as, a surveyor of roads and bridges; a surveyor of weights and measures.-5. One who measures land, or practises the art of surveying. What land soe're the worlds surveyor , the Sun, Can measure in a day, I dare call mine. Dekker and Ford , Sun's Darling, iii. 6. An officer of the British navy whose duty it is to supervise the building and repairing of ships for the navy. - Marine surveyor. See marine. Surveyor of the customs, surveyor of the port, in U. S. revenue laws, an officer at many ports of entry who is subject in general to the direction of the collector of the port, if there be one, and whose duties are to superintend and direct all inspectors, weighers, measurers, and gagers; to report once a week to the collector absence from or neglect of duty of such officers; to visit or in 6089 1. surveyor-general (ser-va'or-jen'e-ral), n. principal surveyor: as, the surveyor - general of the king's manors, or of woods and parks in England. 2. [ cap.] An officer of the Interior Department of the United States government, who, under the direction of the Commi ioner of the General Land Office, supervises the surveys of public lands.