Definition of set

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Set (v. t.) 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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Russet :: Russet (n.) Cloth or clothing of a russet color.
Itinerant :: Itinerant (a.) One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled..
Cock :: Cock (v. t.) To set erect; to turn up.
Watchman :: Watchman (n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
Saw-wrest :: Saw-wrest (n.) See Saw-set.
Destination :: Destination (n.) The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at..
Set :: Set (v. t.) To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing..
Plant :: Plant (n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
Instigate :: Instigate (v. t.) To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime.
Hypostatical :: Hypostatical (a.) Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation..
Absolution :: Absolution (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense..
Fisetin :: Fisetin (n.) A yellow crystalline substance extracted from fustet, and regarded as its essential coloring principle; -- called also fisetic acid..
Palisade :: Palisade (n.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense..
Foot :: Foot (v. t.) To set on foot; to establish; to land.
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed..
Oversetting :: Oversetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overse.
Dart :: Dart (n.) A spear set as a prize in running.
Setiferous :: Setiferous (a.) Producing, or having one or more, bristles..
Seat :: Seat (v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle..
Chaetiferous :: Chaetiferous (a.) Bearing setae.
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