[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That surveys: see the verb.
1592. R. D., Hypnerotomachia, 21. Hir [sc. an Eagle’s] suruaighing spreding traine.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., V. ix. Whose courtly habite is the grace of the presence, and delight of the surueying eye.
a. 1644. Quarles, Sol. Recant., ch. vi. 5. The worlds surveighing Lamp.
1697. Dryden, Æneid, XI. 796. A steepy Mountain … Whence the surveying Sight the neather Ground commands.
