Definition of set

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Set (n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece..

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Fuller :: Fuller (v. t.) To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet..
Interset :: Interset (v. t.) To set between or among.
Set :: Set (v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
Closet :: Closet (v. t.) To make into a closet for a secret interview.
Isosporic :: Isosporic (a.) Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns and Equiseta. Cf. Heterosporic..
Saw-wrest :: Saw-wrest (n.) See Saw-set.
Addorsed :: Addorsed (a.) Set or turned back to back.
Wike :: Wike (n.) A temporary mark or boundary, as a bough of a tree set up in marking out or dividing anything, as tithes, swaths to be mowed in common ground, etc.; -- called also wicker..
Involution :: Involution (n.) The relation which exists between three or more sets of points, a.a', b.b', c.c', so related to a point O on the line, that the product Oa.Oa' = Ob.Ob' = Oc.Oc' is constant. Sets of lines or surfaces possessing corresponding properties may be in involution..
Russet :: Russet (n.) A country dress; -- so called because often of a russet color.
Midst :: Midst (n.) Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs..
Infix :: Infix (v. t.) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart..
Vagrant :: Vagrant (a.) Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
Flammation :: Flammation (n.) The act of setting in a flame or blaze.
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..
Trichophore :: Trichophore (n.) One of the saclike organs from which the setae of annelids arise.
Intervene :: Intervene (v. i.) To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel..
Compone :: Compone (v. t.) To compose; to settle; to arrange.
Wistit :: Wistit (n.) A small South American monkey; a marmoset.
Bole :: Bole (n.) An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet..
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