survey 
Court of regard (or survey) of dogs. IM / 
Medical survey, it) the navy, an examination liy a m-'iii- 
cal officer, ordered in tin- ca^r "t a JUT.I'.M i!isaM<-,t Trig- 
onometrical survey, s,-,- in ' m, ,,,,,,, i fl ,-,ii. =Syn. 1 ami 
2. Review, examination, insprrl ion. n-tn..s|nsct. 
surveyable (ser-va'a-i>l). . Capable of being 
snrxcyed. <<nii/l<-. 
SUTVeyalt (ser-va'al). H. (< mirn // + -/.] Sur- 
vey. Iturroiv, Works, III., Serin, lilt. 
SUTVeyance (ser va'ans), . [< MK. mim iiini-i, 
Hiiri'fiiniiK'i'. < I >!'. xiirn iinii-i , \'. xiirrriini'i-, over- 
sight^ "xiirfi ii-r, oversee: sec niirriy. ] Survi-y- 
orsliip; survey. 
Vomr i* thr charj.' 1 ' "f ill I'll' tliri'rittnitci', 
\\ liil that they been umlcr ymiri- unM-niaunce. 
{'limn''!-, Physician's Tale, 1. )tf. 
1 give you the mrretjaHCf of my new-bought ground. 
Hiil<lli Inn Solomon I'araphniwcd, To tin- (ientlenirn- 
1 Readers. 
surveying (ser-va'ing), it. [Verbal n. of ur- 
ri i/, i\] "rhe art or the process of determining 
tlie boundaries and area of a part of the earth's 
surface from actual measurement of lines and 
uncles; the art of determining the form, aren, 
surl'iiee, ciiMiiiur, etc., of any section of the 
earth's surface, and delineating the same on a 
map or plan. 
Surpeyiiiy is thu art of determining the relative positions 
of prominent points and other objects on the surface of 
i lie u r 'ii h<l. and making a graphical delineation of the in- 
cluded area. Kncyc. Brit., XXII. ir>. 
Land-surveying, the dctei urination of the area, shape, 
etc., of tracts of land. Marine or hydrographlcal sur- 
veying, tile determination of the forms of coasts and liai 
bors, the positions anil distances of objects on the shore, 
of islands, rocks, and shoals, the entrances of rivers, the 
depth of water, nature of the bottom, etc. Military sur- 
veying. See mimiuiixsancr. Plane surveying. See 
plane i . - Topographical surveying, the determination 
not only of the direction and lengths of the principal lines 
of a tract to be surveyed, but also of the undulations of the 
surface, the directions and locations of its watercourses, 
and all the accidents, whether natural or artificial, that 
distinguish it from the level plain. 
surveying-vessel (ser-va'ing-ves'el), ii. A ves- 
sel fitted for and engaged iu the carrying on of 
a marine survey. 
surveyor (ser-va'or), M. [< MK. sun-dor, < AF. 
nnrvi'our ; as surrey + -or 1 .] 1. One who sur- 
veys 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 mrvetf(rr. 
Landor, Diogenes and Plato. 
2. An overseer ; a superintendent. [Rare.] 
Were 't not madness, then, 
To make the fox surveyor of the fold ? 
Sltak., 2 Hen. VI., ill. 1. 253. 
3f. A household officer; a supervisor of the 
other servants, Bnbees Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. 
317. 4. One who views and examines some- 
thing for the purpose of ascertaining its con- 
dition, 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. 
Deklcer 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. Seemarine. 
Surveyor of the customs, surveyor of the port, in 
U. S. rrivn tic Ian**, 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 super- 
intend and direct all inspectors, weigher*, measurers, and 
gagers ; to report once a week to the collector absence 
from or neglect of duty of such officers ; to visit or in- 
spect vessels arriving and to make return in writing to 
the collector of all vessels arrived on the preceding day, 
specifying particulars of vessels ; to put on board one or 
more inspectors immediately after arrival ; to ascertain 
distilled spirits imported, and rate according to laws ; to 
ascertain whether goods imported agree with permits for 
landing the same ; to superintend lading for exportation ; 
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 ap- 
pointed, it is his duty also to receive and record copies 
of all manifests transmitted to him by the collector, to 
record all 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 cluiin, 3. Surveyors' cross, 
an instrument used by surveyors to establish perpendicu- 
lar lines. It hasfour sights set at right angles on a brass 
cross which can be fastened to a tripod or single stall 
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 traci'd 
by means of the other pair of sights. - Surveyors' level. 
See leveli. Surveyors' pole, a pole usually marked off 
into foot spaces for eonvenirnre in measuring, these being 
painted in strongly contrasted colors, that it maybe read- 
ily distinguished from surrounding objects at a distance. 
It is used in ranging lines. 
surveyor-general (ser-va'or-.ienV-rai). n. 1. 
A principal surveyor: as. the xiii'i'<-i/or-iii-in nil 
of the king's manors, or of woods ami parks in 
England. 2. [ni/i.] An otliccr of I lie Interior 
Department of the 1'nited States government. 
who, under the direction of the Commissioner 
of the General Land Office, supervises the -in-- 
veys of public la mis. 
surveyorship (ser-vfi'or-ship), . [< i<rr< //"/ 
+ -.v/ii'/i.] The office of surveyor. 
SUrviewt (ser-vu'), M. [< ./- + //<.] A sur- 
vey: a looking on the Mil-face only. Mi/toii.On 
Del', of llnmb. Remonst. 
SUTVieWt (ser-vu'), r. t. [Cf.M</v/< , .. ami .-;- 
ri'ii. | To survey. Xpi-nxi i; Sliep. Cal., February. 
SUrviset (ser-viz'), r. /. [Of. .m-i/. XII/H '''" 1 
To look over; supervise. 
It is the most vile, foolish, absurd, palpable, and ridicn- 
ln'is escutcheon that ever this eye mr: 
B. JUHSOII, Every Man out of in-. Humour. III. 1. 
SUTVivability (ser-vi-va-bU'i-ti), ii. [< mifviff 
+ -<iliititi/.] Capability of surviving. 
It must be held that these rules still determine the fur- 
rirtii,iliii/,if actions for tort, except where the law has 
been specially modified or changed by statute. 
99 X. y. Report*, 28<>. 
Survival (ser-vi'val), . [< survive + -/.] 1. 
The act of surviving or outliving; a living be- 
yond the life of another person; in general, 
the fact of living or existing longer than the 
persons, things, or circumstances which have 
formed the original and natural environment: 
often specifically applied to the case of a rite, 
habit, belief, or the like remaining in exis- 
tence after what justified it has passed away. 
The occurrence of this D. M. [Dii* Mrtm'bir*, inscribed 
on tombs by ancient Romans) In Christian epitaphs Is an 
often-noticed case of religious ntrrimt. 
E. B. Tylur, Prim. Culture, II. 110. 
No small number of what the English stigmatize as 
Americanisms are cases of frurvival from former good 
usage. Whitney, I.lfe and Growth of Lang., ix. 
2. One who or that which thus survives, out- 
lives, or outlasts. 
-I'lii'.ni in Negro Funeral Ceremonies. Just before 
leaving, a woman, whom I judged to be the bereaved 
mother, laid upon the mound two or three infants' toys. 
Looking about among the large number of graves of chil- 
dren, I observed this practice to be very general. 
The Academy, Dec. 2H, 1889, p. 442. 
Opinions belonging properly to lower intellectual levels, 
which have held their place into the higher by mere force 
of ancestral tradition ; these are survival*. 
E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. MS. 
3. In binl., the fact of the continued existence 
of some forms of animal and vegetable life af- 
ter the time when certain related forms have 
become extinct; also, the law or underlying 
principle of such continued existence, as by 
the process of natural selection : in either case 
more fully called surtir.nl of the fittest, and 
by implication noting the extinction of other 
organisms less fitted or unfit to survive the 
struggle for existence. Surrival in this sense sim- 
ply 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 
process 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 up- 
right-growing forms; individuals with structures that 
lift them above the rest are the fittest for the conditions; 
and by the continual airriral nf the fittest such structures 
must become established. 
//. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., i 193. 
survivance (str-vi'vans), w. [< F. gurvivanee, 
< surrivant, ppr. of survivre, survive: see sur- 
vive.] Survivorship. [Rare.] 
His son had the mrmmnee of the sUdtholder-ship. 
Bp. Burnet, Hist. Own Times. {Latham.) 
SUrvivancy (ser-vTvan-si), ii. [As surriviuii-i- 
(see -cy).} Same as survivnim. KI>. Biirm-t. 
(Imp. Diet.) 
survive (ser-viv'), r. ; pret. and pp. survived, 
ppr. surviving. [< F. surrivre = Pr. sobminvi 
= Sp. sobrerivir = Pg. sobrevirer = It. soprawi- 
rere, live longer than, < LL. super fitere, outlive, 
< L. super, over, + rivcre, live: see ririd. Cf. 
devivr, rerirc.'] 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: 
:i>. to MnrfM one's usefulness. 
If thou nurrive my well-contented day, 
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover. 
Shale., Son net. xxxli. 
Laborious hinds. 
Who had mrmr'il the father, serv'd the son. 
Cmeper, Task, iii. 74. 
susceptibility 
It is unfortunate tlnttsu fi u ,-aily Ijibteali iliftcripti<Mi~ 
have nun ii;-<t the arri'lrnts "f time. 
r, The Alphabet, II. 1S1. 
Syu. Oiiilir,-. 8m 
II. intr<inx. To remain aim or in cxistfiicc; 
specifically, to remain alive after the death or 
'i's-ation of *nme one or Honictliiii*;. 
Yea, though I die, the scandal will mrviee. 
NA.i/. , !.in-ii-,-,-, 1. 204. 
Long as Time, in San < ti \ 
<'n,,',r,f, I'.iitli nf the Musi- 
The race nrrivet whilst tin- indiudna! n -. 
Kiiiermii, Hist. Discourse at Concord. 
survivency (ser-vi'ven-si), n. [< LI.. */<-/ M 
i'i i t-)a,npr. of xii/ii-rriri-rr. outlive: .-i-e .,//,-, 
and -P.V.J A surviving; survivorship. [Rare.] 
/(/>. Dm. 
SUTViver (ser-vi'v6r), . [< survive + -rl.] 
Same as xiin-ivor. 
survivor (ser-vi'vor). . [< nurvive + -or 1 .] 
1. One who or that which stirvives after the 
death of another. 
Death Is what man should wish. But, oh ! what fate 
shall on thy wife, thy sad turcicvr, wait '. /. 
He was seventy years old when he was left destitute, 
the fftrrritw of those who should have survived him. 
Macaulay, Hist. Kng., vll. 
2. In '"'. that one of two or more designated 
persons who lives the longest : usually of two 
joint tenants, or any two persons who have a 
joint interest. 
survivorship (ser-vi'vor-ship), w. [< survivor 
+ ship.'] 1. The state of surviving; survival. 
We [an Ill-assorted couple] arc now going into the coun- 
try together, with only one hope for making this life agree- 
able, ntrvicvrithip. Steeit, Tatler, No. 58. 
2. Iu lair, the right of a joint tenant or other 
person who has a joint interest in an estate to 
take the whole estate upon the death of the 
other. When there are more than two joint tenants and 
successive deaths occur, the whole estate remains to the 
survivors and finally to the last survivor. 
3. An expectative to a specified benefice ; the 
right and privilege to be collated in the future 
to a specified benefice not vacant at the time 
of the grant Chance of survivorship, the chance, 
according to tables of mortality, that a person of one age 
haa of outliving a person of a different age. 
Surya (sfir'ya), n. [< Skt. surya, the sun: see 
xii!.] In Itiitdu myth., the god of the sun. 
Bus 1 (sus), . [NL., < L. stw = Gr. i'f, a hog, pig : 
see soiv' 2 , sifi>ie,~\ A Linnean genus of non- 
ruminant hoofed quadrupeds, containing all 
the swine known to him, now restricted to Sun 
scrofa, the wild boar, and closely related forms, 
and made type of the family Suidie. See cut 
under boar. 
8U8-, . The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hody- 
xoni. E. P. Wright. 
SUSannite(su-zan'it), n. [< Suxanna (gee del'. 
+ -i'<< /2 .] A mineral having the composition 
of leadhillite. but supposed to crystallize in the 
rhombohedral system. It is found at the Su- 
sanna mine, Leadhills, Scotland. 
susceptibility (su-sep-ti-bil'i-ti), ii. ; pi. suseej)- 
tiliilitiex (-tiz). [= F. susceptibilitc = Sp. siiscep- 
tilrilidad = Pg. SHSceptibilidade = It. suscetti- 
bilitd, < ML. suKceptibilita(t-')s, ppr. of "suscepti- 
bilis, susceptible: see susceptible.'] 1. Thestate 
or character of being susceptible; the capa- 
bility of receiving impressions or change, or of 
being influenced or affected ; sensitiveness. 
All deficiencies are supplied by the mucrpl Utility of 
those to whom they [works of the imagination ; are ad- 
dressed. Ma., lulu, i, John Dryden. 
Every mind is in a peculiar state of gugceptibility to cer- 
tain impressions. IT. Wallace, Epicureanism, p. 219. 
2. Capacity for feeling or emotion of any kind : 
sensibility: often in the plural. 
So I thought then ; I found afterwards that blunt tut- 
cepdbilitir* are very consistent with strong propensities. 
Charlotte Bronte, Professor, x. 
It has become a common-place among us that the moral 
nuceptibilitm which we find In ourselves would not exist 
but for the action of law and authoritative custom on 
many generations of our ancestors. 
T. II. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics. I 206. 
Conscience Includes not only a ntscrptibility to feeling 
of a certain kind, but a power or faculty of recognising 
the presence of certain qualities in actions Brightness, 
justness, itc.), or of judging an act to have a certain moral 
character. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 558. 
3. Specifically, a special tendency to experi- 
ence emotion ; peculiar mental sensitiveness. 
His [Horn's] character seems full of susceptibility ; per- 
haps too much so for its natural vigour. His novels, ac- 
cordingly, . . . verge towards the sentimental. 
Carlyle, German Literature. 
In these fits of mscrptitrility. every glance seemed to 
him to be charged either with offensive pity or with ill- 
repressed disgust. Gror : ie KIM. Mill on the Floss, ii 4. 
