Definition of set

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Set (v. t.) 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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Wadset :: Wadset (n.) A kind of pledge or mortgage.
Glazing :: Glazing (n.) The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy..
Botany Bay :: Botany Bay () A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770..
Verriculate :: Verriculate (a.) Having thickset tufts of parallel hairs, bristles, or branches..
Worldling :: Worldling () A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.
Distracted :: Distracted (a.) Mentally disordered; unsettled; mad.
Declaim :: Declaim (v. t.) To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
Compositor :: Compositor (n.) One who composes or sets in order.
Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
Dedicate :: Dedicate (v. t.) To devote, set apart, or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service..
Resetter :: Resetter (n.) One who resets, or sets again..
Waver :: Waver (v. i.) To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment..
Unset :: Unset (a.) Not set; not fixed or appointed.
Threshold :: Threshold (n.) Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life..
Footing :: Footing (n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
Fluorine :: Fluorine (n.) A non-metallic, gaseous element, strongly acid or negative, or associated with chlorine, bromine, and iodine, in the halogen group of which it is the first member. It always occurs combined, is very active chemically, and possesses such an avidity for most elements, and silicon especially, that it can neither be prepared nor kept in glass vessels. If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886. It is a pungent, corrosive, colorles
Reset :: Reset (n.) The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw..
Creamery :: Creamery (n.) A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream.
Acronycally :: Acronycally (adv.) In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vice versa..
Book :: Book (n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set..
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