Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUR-VEY-OR, n.

1. An overseer; one placed to superintend others. – Shak.
2. One that views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity or quality of any thing; as, a surveyor of land; a surveyor of highways; surveyors of ordnance. In the customs, a gauger; an officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; also in the United States, an officer who ascertains the weight and quantity of goods subject to duty.