Definition of set

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Set (v. t.) To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs..

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Ripsaw :: Ripsaw (v. t.) A handsaw with coarse teeth which have but a slight set, used for cutting wood in the direction of the fiber; -- called also ripping saw..
Leave :: Leave (v. i.) To depart; to set out.
Empight :: Empight (a.) Fixed; settled; fastened.
Valuator :: Valuator (n.) One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser..
Watchman :: Watchman (n.) One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
Preside :: Preside (v. i.) To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate..
Briered :: Briered (a.) Set with briers.
Creel :: Creel (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule..
Physeter :: Physeter (n.) The genus that includes the sperm whale.
Setter :: Setter (n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.
Oppose :: Oppose (v. i.) To be set opposite.
Disengage :: Disengage (v. t.) To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear; as, to disengage one from a party, from broils and controversies, from an oath, promise, or occupation; to disengage the affections a favorite pursuit, the mind from study..
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.
Halfcock :: Halfcock (v. t.) To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.
Cosset :: Cosset (n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general..
Footing :: Footing (n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.
Spheric :: Spheric (a.) Of or pertaining to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set..
Obdiplostemonous :: Obdiplostemonous (a.) Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers..
Miscolor :: Miscolor (v. t.) To give a wrong color to; figuratively, to set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts..
Establish :: Establish (a.) To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
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