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Set :: Set (v. t.) To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned..

Ground :: Ground (n.) That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground..

Phaethon :: Phaethon (n.) The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po..

Encamp :: Encamp (v. i.) To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling..

Compensation :: Compensation (n.) The extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors by the credits of which they are reciprocally creditors; the payment of a debt by a credit of equal amount; a set-off.

Foreman :: Foreman (n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer..

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

Setting :: Setting (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current..

Composure :: Composure (n.) A settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose.

Bone :: Bone (v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying..

Declaration :: Declaration (n.) That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.

Shittle :: Shittle (a.) Wavering; unsettled; inconstant.

Recital :: Recital (n.) The formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation..

Treat :: Treat (v. t.) To negotiate; to settle; to make terms for.

Arist :: Arist () 3d sing. pres. of Arise, for ariseth..

Separate :: Separate (v. t.) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service..

Amphicome :: Amphicome (n.) A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination..

Chogset :: Chogset (n.) See Cunner.

Beset :: Beset (v. t.) To occupy; to employ; to use up.

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