Definition of set

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Set (v. t.) 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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Deaconess :: Deaconess (n.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.
Fantasia :: Fantasia (n.) A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form..
Cross-staff :: Cross-staff (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
Reseat :: Reseat (v. t.) To seat or set again, as on a chair, throne, etc..
Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary..
Administrator :: Administrator (n.) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority..
Water Sail :: Water sail () A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water..
Outsettler :: Outsettler (n.) One who settles at a distance, or away, from others..
Reset :: Reset (n.) The act of resetting.
Wung-out :: Wung-out (a.) Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.
Appropriation :: Appropriation (n.) Anything, especially money, thus set apart..
Musar :: Musar (n.) An itinerant player on the musette, an instrument formerly common in Europe..
Discriminate :: Discriminate (v. t.) To set apart as being different; to mark as different; to separate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish.
Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or Old) Saxon..
Musa :: Musa (n.) A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (M. paradisiaca of Linnaeus, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (M. Ensete), the Philippine Island (M. textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain..
Physeter :: Physeter (n.) The genus that includes the sperm whale.
State :: State (v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc..
Muce :: Muce (n.) See Muse, and Muset..
Throstle :: Throstle (n.) A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise..
Proposition :: Proposition (n.) The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
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