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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.
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To set about
(gcide) | 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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