Definition of set

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Set (v. i.) To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter..

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Typesetting :: Typesetting (n.) The act or art of setting type.
Compositor :: Compositor (n.) One who sets type and arranges it for use.
Hamated :: Hamated (a.) Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate..
Were :: Were (n.) A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled..
Emancipate :: Emancipate (a.) Set at liberty.
Cachalot :: Cachalot (n.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale..
After-glow :: After-glow (n.) A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.
Peopler :: Peopler (n.) A settler; an inhabitant.
Cruset :: Cruset (n.) A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.
Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship..
Lime-twigged :: Lime-twigged (a.) Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime..
Septemberer :: Septemberer (n.) A Setembrist.
Suite :: Suite (n.) A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6..
Plumbism :: Plumbism (n.) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and Wrist..
Faeces :: Faeces (n.pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation..
Enfranchise :: Enfranchise (v. t.) To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power..
Estate :: Estate (n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
Homography :: Homography (n.) A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic..
Dividend :: Dividend (n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate..
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