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To set
(gcide)		Rank \Rank\ (r[a^][ng]k), a. [Compar. Ranker
(r[a^][ng]k"[~e]r); superl. Rankest.] [AS. ranc strong,
proud; cf. D. rank slender, Dan. rank upright, erect, Prov.
G. rank slender, Icel. rakkr slender, bold. The meaning seems
to have been influenced by L. rancidus, E. rancid.]
1. Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown
to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
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And, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one
stalk, rank and good. --Gen. xli. 5.
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2. Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter;
as, rank heresy. "Rank nonsense." --Hare. "I do forgive
thy rankest fault." --Shak.
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3. Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich
and fertile; as, rank land. --Mortimer.
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4. Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell;
rank-smelling rue. --Spenser.
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5. Strong to the taste. "Divers sea fowls taste rank of the
fish on which they feed." --Boyle.
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6. Inflamed with venereal appetite. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Rank modus (Law), an excessive and unreasonable modus. See
Modus, 3.

To set (the iron of a plane, etc.) rank, to set so as to
take off a thick shaving. --Moxon.
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To set a gin
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
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3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
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The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
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Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
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This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
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They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
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(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
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I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
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To set a sail
(gcide)		Sail \Sail\, n. [OE. seil, AS. segel, segl; akin to D. zeil,
OHG. segal, G. & Sw. segel, Icel. segl, Dan. seil. [root]
153.]
1. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the
wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels
through the water.
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Behoves him now both sail and oar. --Milton.
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2. Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail.
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3. A wing; a van. [Poetic]
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Like an eagle soaring
To weather his broad sails. --Spenser.
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4. The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.
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5. A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.
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Note: In this sense, the plural has usually the same form as
the singular; as, twenty sail were in sight.
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6. A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon
the water.
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Note: Sails are of two general kinds, fore-and-aft sails,
and square sails. Square sails are always bent to
yards, with their foot lying across the line of the
vessel. Fore-and-aft sails are set upon stays or gaffs
with their foot in line with the keel. A fore-and-aft
sail is triangular, or quadrilateral with the after
leech longer than the fore leech. Square sails are
quadrilateral, but not necessarily square. See Phrases
under Fore, a., and Square, a.; also, Bark,
Brig, Schooner, Ship, Stay.
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Sail burton (Naut.), a purchase for hoisting sails aloft
for bending.

Sail fluke (Zool.), the whiff.

Sail hook, a small hook used in making sails, to hold the
seams square.

Sail loft, a loft or room where sails are cut out and made.


Sail room (Naut.), a room in a vessel where sails are
stowed when not in use.

Sail yard (Naut.), the yard or spar on which a sail is
extended.

Shoulder-of-mutton sail (Naut.), a triangular sail of
peculiar form. It is chiefly used to set on a boat's mast.


To crowd sail. (Naut.) See under Crowd.

To loose sails (Naut.), to unfurl or spread sails.

To make sail (Naut.), to extend an additional quantity of
sail.

To set a sail (Naut.), to extend or spread a sail to the
wind.

To set sail (Naut.), to unfurl or spread the sails; hence,
to begin a voyage.

To shorten sail (Naut.), to reduce the extent of sail, or
take in a part.

To strike sail (Naut.), to lower the sails suddenly, as in
saluting, or in sudden gusts of wind; hence, to
acknowledge inferiority; to abate pretension.

Under sail, having the sails spread.
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To set a saw
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
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3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
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The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
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Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
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This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
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They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
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(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
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I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
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To set a snare
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
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3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
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The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
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Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
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This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
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They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
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(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
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I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
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To set a sponge
(gcide)		Sponge \Sponge\ (sp[u^]nj), n. [OF. esponge, F. ['e]ponge, L.
spongia, Gr. spoggia`, spo`ggos. Cf. Fungus, Spunk.]
[Formerly written also spunge.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or
Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.
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2. The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny
Spongiae (Keratosa), used for many purposes, especially
the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable
sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea,
and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies.
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3. Fig.: One who lives upon others; a pertinacious and
indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.
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4. Any spongelike substance. Specifically:
(a) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and
after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the
agency of the yeast or leaven.
(b) Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
(c) Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
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5. (Gun.) A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a
discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with
sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped
nap, and having a handle, or staff.
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6. (Far.) The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering
to the heel.
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Bath sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse
commercial sponges, especially Spongia equina.

Cup sponge, a toilet sponge growing in a cup-shaped form.


Glass sponge. See Glass-sponge, in the Vocabulary.

Glove sponge, a variety of commercial sponge ({Spongia
officinalis}, variety tubulifera), having very fine
fibers, native of Florida, and the West Indies.

Grass sponge, any one of several varieties of coarse
commercial sponges having the surface irregularly tufted,
as Spongia graminea, and Spongia equina, variety
cerebriformis, of Florida and the West Indies.

Horse sponge, a coarse commercial sponge, especially
Spongia equina.

Platinum sponge. (Chem.) See under Platinum.

Pyrotechnical sponge, a substance made of mushrooms or
fungi, which are boiled in water, dried, and beaten, then
put in a strong lye prepared with saltpeter, and again
dried in an oven. This makes the black match, or tinder,
brought from Germany.

Sheep's-wool sponge, a fine and durable commercial sponge
(Spongia equina, variety gossypina) found in Florida and
the West Indies. The surface is covered with larger and
smaller tufts, having the oscula between them.

Sponge cake, a kind of sweet cake which is light and
spongy.

Sponge lead, or Spongy lead (Chem.), metallic lead
brought to a spongy form by reduction of lead salts, or by
compressing finely divided lead; -- used in secondary
batteries and otherwise.

Sponge tree (Bot.), a tropical leguminous tree ({Acacia
Farnesiana}), with deliciously fragrant flowers, which are
used in perfumery.

Toilet sponge, a very fine and superior variety of
Mediterranean sponge (Spongia officinalis, variety
Mediterranea); -- called also Turkish sponge.

To set a sponge (Cookery), to leaven a small mass of flour,
to be used in leavening a larger quantity.

To throw up the sponge, to give up a contest; to
acknowledge defeat; -- from a custom of the prize ring,
the person employed to sponge a pugilist between rounds
throwing his sponge in the air in token of defeat; -- now,
throw in the towel is more common, and has the same
origin and meaning. [Cant or Slang] "He was too brave a
man to throw up the sponge to fate." --Lowell.

Vegetable sponge. (Bot.) See Loof.

Velvet sponge, a fine, soft commercial sponge ({Spongia
equina}, variety meandriniformis) found in Florida and the
West Indies.

Vitreous sponge. See Glass-sponge.

Yellow sponge, a common and valuable commercial sponge
(Spongia agaricina, variety corlosia) found in Florida
and the West Indies.
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(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
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3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
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The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
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Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
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This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
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They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
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(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
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I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
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To set about
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. i.
1. To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink
out of sight; to come to an end.
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Ere the weary sun set in the west. --Shak.
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Thus this century sets with little mirth, and the
next is likely to arise with more mourning.
--Fuller.
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2. To fit music to words. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant. "To sow
dry, and set wet." --Old Proverb.
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4. To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to
germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has
set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
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5. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
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A gathering and serring of the spirits together to
resist, maketh the teeth to set hard one against
another. --Bacon.
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6. To congeal; to concrete; to solidify; -- of cements,
glues, gels, concrete, substances polymerizing into
plastics, etc.
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That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set.
--Boyle.
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7. To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move
on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide
sets to the windward.
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8. To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now
followed by out.
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The king is set from London. --Shak.
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9. To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as,
the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a
setter.
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10. To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now
followed by out.
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If he sets industriously and sincerely to perform
the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of
doubting but it shall prove successful to him.
--Hammond.
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11. To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.

Note: [Colloquially used, but improperly, for sit.]
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Note: The use of the verb set for sit in such expressions as,
the hen is setting on thirteen eggs; a setting hen,
etc., although colloquially common, and sometimes
tolerated in serious writing, is not to be approved.
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To set about, to commence; to begin.

To set forward, to move or march; to begin to march; to
advance.

To set forth, to begin a journey.

To set in.
(a) To begin; to enter upon a particular state; as,
winter set in early.
(b) To settle one's self; to become established. "When
the weather was set in to be very bad." --Addison.
(c) To flow toward the shore; -- said of the tide.

To set off.
(a) To enter upon a journey; to start.
(b) (Typog.) To deface or soil the next sheet; -- said of
the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another
sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time
to dry.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To begin, as a journey or enterprise; to set about.
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He that would seriously set upon the search of
truth. --Locke.
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(b) To assault; to make an attack. --Bacon.
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Cassio hath here been set on in the dark.
--Shak.
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To set out, to begin a journey or course; as, to set out
for London, or from London; to set out in business;to set
out in life or the world.

To set to, to apply one's self to.

To set up.
(a) To begin business or a scheme of life; as, to set up
in trade; to set up for one's self.
(b) To profess openly; to make pretensions.
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Those men who set up for mortality without
regard to religion, are generally but virtuous
in part. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]About \A*bout"\, adv.
1. On all sides; around.
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'Tis time to look about. --Shak.
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2. In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the
outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
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3. Here and there; around; in one place and another.
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Wandering about from house to house. --1 Tim. v.
13.
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4. Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in
quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as
high; -- also of quantity, number, time. "There fell . . .
about three thousand men." --Exod. xxii. 28.
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5. To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite
direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to
turn one's self about.
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To bring about, to cause to take place; to accomplish.

To come about, to occur; to take place. See under Come.


To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to
prepare. "Shall we set about some revels?" --Shak.

Round about, in every direction around.
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To set abroach
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
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3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
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The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
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Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
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This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
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They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
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(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
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I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
[1913 Webster]
To set against
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
[1913 Webster]

3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
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Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
[1913 Webster]

This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
[1913 Webster]

I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
[1913 Webster]

I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: See Put.
[1913 Webster]
To set agoing
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
[1913 Webster]

I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
[1913 Webster]

Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
[1913 Webster]

3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
[1913 Webster]

I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
[1913 Webster]

Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
[1913 Webster]

4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
[1913 Webster]

They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
[1913 Webster]

His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
[1913 Webster]

On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
[1913 Webster]

And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
[1913 Webster]

5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
[1913 Webster]

Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
[1913 Webster]
(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
[1913 Webster]

6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
[1913 Webster]

I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
[1913 Webster]

Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
[1913 Webster]

9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
[1913 Webster]

High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]

10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
[1913 Webster]

Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
[1913 Webster]

12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
[1913 Webster]

13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
[1913 Webster]

14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
[1913 Webster]

To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
[1913 Webster]

Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
[1913 Webster]

Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
[1913 Webster]

This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
[1913 Webster]

To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
[1913 Webster]

To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
[1913 Webster]

I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
[1913 Webster]
(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
[1913 Webster]
To set apart
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
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3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
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Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
[1913 Webster]

This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
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They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
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(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
[1913 Webster]

I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
[1913 Webster]

I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: See Put.
[1913 Webster]
To set aside
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
[1913 Webster]

I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
[1913 Webster]

Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
[1913 Webster]

3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
[1913 Webster]

I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
[1913 Webster]

Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
[1913 Webster]

4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
[1913 Webster]

They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
[1913 Webster]

His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
[1913 Webster]

On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
[1913 Webster]

And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
[1913 Webster]

5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
[1913 Webster]

Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
[1913 Webster]
(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
[1913 Webster]

6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
[1913 Webster]

I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
[1913 Webster]

Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
[1913 Webster]

9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
[1913 Webster]

High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]

10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
[1913 Webster]

Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
[1913 Webster]

12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
[1913 Webster]

13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
[1913 Webster]

14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
[1913 Webster]

To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
[1913 Webster]

Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
[1913 Webster]

Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
[1913 Webster]

This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
[1913 Webster]

To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
[1913 Webster]

To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
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(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
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I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
[1913 Webster]Aside \A*side"\, adv. [Pref. a- + side.]
1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or
direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the
way; apart.
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Thou shalt set aside that which is full. --2 Kings
iv. 4.
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But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king.
--Shak.
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The flames were blown aside. --Dryden.
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2. Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy
thoughts. "Lay aside every weight." --Heb. xii. 1.
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3. So as to be heard by others; privately.
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Then lords and ladies spake aside. --Sir W.
Scott.
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To set aside (Law), to annul or defeat the effect or
operation of, by a subsequent decision of the same or of a
superior tribunal; to declare of no authority; as, to set
aside a verdict or a judgment.
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To set at defiance
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
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3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
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The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
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Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
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This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
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They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
[1913 Webster]

I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
[1913 Webster]

I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
[1913 Webster]Defiance \De*fi"ance\, n. [OF. defiance, desfiance, challenge,
fr. desfier to challenge, F. d['e]fier. See Defy.]
1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to
combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
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A war without a just defiance made. --Dryden.
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Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down.
--Tennyson.
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2. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition
to resist; contempt of opposition.
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He breathed defiance to my ears. --Shak.
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3. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.] "Defiance
to thy kindness." --Ford.
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To bid defiance, To set at defiance, to defy; to
disregard recklessly or contemptuously. --Locke.
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To set at ease
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
[1913 Webster]

I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
[1913 Webster]

Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
[1913 Webster]

3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
[1913 Webster]

I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
[1913 Webster]

Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
[1913 Webster]

4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
[1913 Webster]

They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
[1913 Webster]

His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
[1913 Webster]

On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
[1913 Webster]

And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
[1913 Webster]

5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
[1913 Webster]

Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
[1913 Webster]
(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
[1913 Webster]

6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
[1913 Webster]

I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
[1913 Webster]

Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
[1913 Webster]

9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
[1913 Webster]

High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]

10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
[1913 Webster]

Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
[1913 Webster]

12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
[1913 Webster]

13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
[1913 Webster]

14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
[1913 Webster]

To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
[1913 Webster]

Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
[1913 Webster]

Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
[1913 Webster]

This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
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They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
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(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
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I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
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To set at naught
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
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3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
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The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
[1913 Webster]

Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
[1913 Webster]

His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
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This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
[1913 Webster]

To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
[1913 Webster]

I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
[1913 Webster]
(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
[1913 Webster]

I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
[1913 Webster]Naught \Naught\ (n[add]t), n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht,
AS. n[=a]wiht, n[=a]uht, n[=a]ht; ne not + [=a] ever + wiht
thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit,
and cf. Aught, Not.]
1. Nothing. [Written also nought.]
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Doth Job fear God for naught? --Job i. 9.
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2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.
[1913 Webster]

To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard;
to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. "Ye have set
at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.
[1913 Webster]
To set at work
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
[1913 Webster]

I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
[1913 Webster]

Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
[1913 Webster]

3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
[1913 Webster]

I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
[1913 Webster]

Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
[1913 Webster]

4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
[1913 Webster]

They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
[1913 Webster]

His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
[1913 Webster]

On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
[1913 Webster]

And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
[1913 Webster]

5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
[1913 Webster]

Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
[1913 Webster]
(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
[1913 Webster]

6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
[1913 Webster]

I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
[1913 Webster]

Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
[1913 Webster]

9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
[1913 Webster]

High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]

10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
[1913 Webster]

Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
[1913 Webster]

12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
[1913 Webster]

13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
[1913 Webster]

14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
[1913 Webster]

To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
[1913 Webster]

Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
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This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
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They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
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(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
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I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
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To set before
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
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3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
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The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
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Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
[1913 Webster]

Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
[1913 Webster]

This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
[1913 Webster]

To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
[1913 Webster]

To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
[1913 Webster]

I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
[1913 Webster]
(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
[1913 Webster]

I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: See Put.
[1913 Webster]
To set by
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
[1913 Webster]

I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
[1913 Webster]

Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
[1913 Webster]

3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
[1913 Webster]

I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
[1913 Webster]

Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
[1913 Webster]

4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
[1913 Webster]

They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
[1913 Webster]

His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
[1913 Webster]

On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
[1913 Webster]

And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
[1913 Webster]

5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
[1913 Webster]

Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
[1913 Webster]
(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
[1913 Webster]

6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
[1913 Webster]

I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
[1913 Webster]

Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
[1913 Webster]

9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
[1913 Webster]

High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]

10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
[1913 Webster]

Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
[1913 Webster]

12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
[1913 Webster]

13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
[1913 Webster]

14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
[1913 Webster]

To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
[1913 Webster]

Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
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This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
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They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
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(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
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I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
[1913 Webster]By \By\ (b[imac]), prep. [OE. bi, AS. b[imac], big, near to, by,
of, from, after, according to; akin to OS. & OFries. bi, be,
D. bij, OHG. b[imac], G. bei, Goth. bi, and perh. Gr. 'amfi`.
E. prefix be- is orig. the same word. [root]203. See pref.
Be-.]
1. In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from;
close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.
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By foundation or by shady rivulet
He sought them both. --Milton.
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2. On; along; in traversing. Compare 5.
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Long labors both by sea and land he bore. --Dryden.
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By land, by water, they renew the charge. --Pope.
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3. Near to, while passing; hence, from one to the other side
of; past; as, to go by a church.
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4. Used in specifying adjacent dimensions; as, a cabin twenty
feet by forty.
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5. Against. [Obs.] --Tyndale [1. Cor. iv. 4].
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6. With, as means, way, process, etc.; through means of; with
aid of; through; through the act or agency of; as, a city
is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take
by force.
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Note: To the meaning of by, as denoting means or agency,
belong, more or less closely, most of the following
uses of the word:
(a) It points out the author and producer; as, "Waverley",
a novel by Sir W.Scott; a statue by Canova; a sonata
by Beethoven.
(b) In an oath or adjuration, it indicates the being or
thing appealed to as sanction; as, I affirm to you by
all that is sacred; he swears by his faith as a
Christian; no, by Heaven.
(c) According to; by direction, authority, or example of;
after; -- in such phrases as, it appears by his
account; ten o'clock by my watch; to live by rule; a
model to build by.
(d) At the rate of; according to the ratio or proportion
of; in the measure or quantity of; as, to sell cloth
by the yard, milk by the quart, eggs by the dozen,
meat by the pound; to board by the year.
(e) In comparison, it denotes the measure of excess or
deficiency; when anything is increased or diminished,
it indicates the measure of increase or diminution;
as, larger by a half; older by five years; to lessen
by a third.
(f) It expresses continuance or duration; during the
course of; within the period of; as, by day, by night.
(g) As soon as; not later than; near or at; -- used in
expressions of time; as, by this time the sun had
risen; he will be here by two o'clock.
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Note: In boxing the compass, by indicates a pint nearer to,
or towards, the next cardinal point; as, north by east,
i.e., a point towards the east from the north;
northeast by east, i.e., on point nearer the east than
northeast is.
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Note: With is used instead of by before the instrument with
which anything is done; as, to beat one with a stick;
the board was fastened by the carpenter with nails. But
there are many words which may be regarded as means or
processes, or, figuratively, as instruments; and
whether with or by shall be used with them is a matter
of arbitrary, and often, of unsettled usage; as, to a
reduce a town by famine; to consume stubble with fire;
he gained his purpose by flattery; he entertained them
with a story; he distressed us with or by a recital of
his sufferings. see With.
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By all means, most assuredly; without fail; certainly.

By and by.
(a) Close together (of place). [Obs.] "Two yonge knightes
liggyng [lying] by and by." --Chaucer.
(b) Immediately; at once. [Obs.] "When . . . persecution
ariseth because of the word, by and by he is
offended." --Matt. xiii. 21.
(c) Presently; pretty soon; before long.

Note: In this phrase, by seems to be used in the sense of
nearness in time, and to be repeated for the sake of
emphasis, and thus to be equivalent to "soon, and
soon," that is instantly; hence, -- less emphatically,
-- pretty soon, presently.

By one's self, with only one's self near; alone; solitary.

By the bye. See under Bye.

By the head (Naut.), having the bows lower than the stern;
-- said of a vessel when her head is lower in the water
than her stern. If her stern is lower, she is by the
stern.

By the lee, the situation of a vessel, going free, when she
has fallen off so much as to bring the wind round her
stern, and to take her sails aback on the other side.

By the run, to let go by the run, to let go altogether,
instead of slacking off.

By the way, by the bye; -- used to introduce an incidental
or secondary remark or subject.

Day by day, One by one, Piece by piece, etc., each day,
each one, each piece, etc., by itself singly or
separately; each severally.

To come by, to get possession of; to obtain.

To do by, to treat, to behave toward.

To set by, to value, to esteem.

To stand by, to aid, to support.
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Note: The common phrase good-by is equivalent to farewell,
and would be better written good-bye, as it is a
corruption of God be with you (b'w'ye).
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To set by the compass
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
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3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
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The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
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Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
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This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
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They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
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An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
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(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
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(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
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I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
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To set case
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
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I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
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2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
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Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
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The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
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3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
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I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
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Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
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4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
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(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
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They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
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(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
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On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
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Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
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(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
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And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
[1913 Webster]

Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
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(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
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(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
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Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
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8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
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High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
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Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
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10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
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13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
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To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
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Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
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(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
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Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
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(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
[1913 Webster]

This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
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(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
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The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
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If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
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To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
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(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
[1913 Webster]

I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
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(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
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I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
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(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
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Syn: See Put.
[1913 Webster]
To set down
(gcide)		Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Set; p. pr. & vb. n.
Setting.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian,
OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel.
setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative
from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf.
Seize.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or
attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to
fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a
book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest
or trunk on its bottom or on end.
[1913 Webster]

I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
or in or upon a certain place.
[1913 Webster]

Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
[1913 Webster]

3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or
occupation; to put in a certain condition or state
(described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
[1913 Webster]

The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
xxviii. 1.
[1913 Webster]

I am come to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
x. 35.
[1913 Webster]

Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
[1913 Webster]

4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
condition to. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a
spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass;
as, to set a coach in the mud.
[1913 Webster]

They show how hard they are set in this
particular. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
[1913 Webster]

His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
Kings xiv. 4.
[1913 Webster]

On these three objects his heart was set.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
flint. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to
place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid
something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass
in a sash.
[1913 Webster]

And him too rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
[1913 Webster]

5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
[1913 Webster]
(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
[1913 Webster]

Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
set the sails of a ship.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
replace; as, to set a broken bone.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
watch or a clock.
[1913 Webster]
(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
blocks of cut stone in a structure.
[1913 Webster]

6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
[1913 Webster]

I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
for singing.
[1913 Webster]

Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
[1913 Webster]

9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
variegate with objects placed here and there.
[1913 Webster]

High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
--Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]

10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
[1913 Webster]

Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
game; -- said of hunting dogs.
[1913 Webster]

12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
[1913 Webster]

13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
[1913 Webster]

14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
as, to set type; to set a page.
[1913 Webster]

To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] --Shak.

To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
thing against another.

To set agoing, to cause to move.

To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate
from the rest; to reserve.

To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking.

To set aside.
(a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
neglect; to reject; to annul.
[1913 Webster]

Setting aside all other considerations, I will
endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
--Tillotson.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside.

To set at defiance, to defy.

To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
heart at ease.

To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
"Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.

To set a trap To set a snare, or To set a gin, to put
it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's
power.

To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
tu enter on work.
(b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

To set before.
(a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
(b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

To set by.
(a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
(b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a
straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.

To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or
situation of by the compass.

To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

To set down.
(a) To enter in writing; to register.
[1913 Webster]

Some rules were to be set down for the
government of the army. --Clarendon.
[1913 Webster]
(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
[1913 Webster]

This law we may name eternal, being that order
which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
himself to do all things by. --Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To humiliate.

To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.


To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire
to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
irritate.

To set flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
said of a sail.

To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
(c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
[1913 Webster]

To set forward.
(a) To cause to advance.
(b) To promote.

To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
[Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

If you please to assist and set me in, I will
recollect myself. --Collier.
[1913 Webster]

To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
"The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi.
34.

To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
may rise to the surface.
(b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
rennet. See 4
(e) .

To set much by or To set little by, to care much, or
little, for.

To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." --Chaucer.

To set off.
(a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
an estate.
(b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

They . . . set off the worst faces with the
best airs. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(c) To give a flattering description of.

To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as,
to set off one man's services against another's.

To set on or To set upon.
(a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on
thy wife to this." --Shak.
(b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to
observe." --Shak.
(c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
above.

To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n.

To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state
of enmity or opposition to.

To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly.

To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.


To set out.
(a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
(b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
(c) To adorn; to embellish.
[1913 Webster]

An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
[1913 Webster]

The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
--Addison.
[1913 Webster]
(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
[1913 Webster]

I could set out that best side of Luther.
--Atterbury.
[1913 Webster]
(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out
how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury.
(g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

To set over.
(a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
ruler, or commander.
(b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

To set right, to correct; to put in order.

To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n.

To set store by, to consider valuable.

To set the fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion;
to establish the mode.

To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a
disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
contact with them.

To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
watch on duty.

To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to
his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.

To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar.
(b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set
up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii.
10.
(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
set up a school.
(d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
son in trade.
(e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
(f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
[1913 Webster]

I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
as, this good fortune quite set him up.
(i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
(j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
as, to set up type.

To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: See Put.
[1913 Webster]