"Reconnoitre" is a word in ENGLISH

In Spanish-American law. A document issued to a claimant of land as a protection to him, until a survey can …

An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center …

A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to …

In Pennsylva-nta land law. Any considerable body of contiguous tracts surveyed in the name of the same warrantee, without regard …

To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, …

In American law. Visible marks or objects at the ends of the lines drawn in surveys of land, showing the …

A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces …

A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant …

At an early day in Pennsylvania, surveyors often made drafts on paper of pretended surveys of pub-lic lands, and returned …

A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the …

An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.

The art of surveying a region or district.

A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays …

Power to dominate, command, or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.

A court for the hearing of appeals by owners or masters of ships, from orders for the detention of un-safe …

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

To survey with a dial.

A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make …

(Sax.) An ancient record made in the time of william the Conqueror, and now remain-ing in the English exchequer, consisting …

Survey; superintendence.