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Definition of set

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Set (n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce..

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Set :: Set (v. t.) To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse..

Set :: Set (v. i.) To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward..

Loose :: Loose (v. i.) To set sail.

Hirsute :: Hirsute (a.) Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.

Onset :: Onset (v. t.) To assault; to set upon.

Dumal :: Dumal (a.) Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly..

Theorbo :: Theorbo (n.) An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes..

Preempt :: Preempt (v. t. & i.) To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption..

Water Butt :: Water butt () A large, open-headed cask, set up on end, to contain water..

Valuation :: Valuation (n.) Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation..

Disengaging :: Disengaging (a.) Loosing; setting free; detaching.

Fever :: Fever (n.) Excessive excitement of the passions in consequence of strong emotion; a condition of great excitement; as, this quarrel has set my blood in a fever..

Appropriation :: Appropriation (n.) Anything, especially money, thus set apart..

Bassetto :: Bassetto (n.) A tenor or small bass viol.

Skew :: Skew (n.) A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, or the like, cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place..

Occident :: Occident (n.) The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west; -- opposed to orient. Specifically, in former times, Europe as opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.

Enfire :: Enfire (v. t.) To set on fire.

Wale :: Wale (n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc..

Cruset :: Cruset (n.) A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.