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Definition of setter

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Setter (n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching..

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Dropper :: Dropper (n.) A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter..

Setting :: Setting (n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter..

Setterwort :: Setterwort (n.) The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots..

Setter :: Setter (n.) One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth..

Flag :: Flag (n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter..

Undersetter :: Undersetter (n.) One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal..

Roughsetter :: Roughsetter (n.) A mason who builds rough stonework.

Resetter :: Resetter (n.) One who resets, or sets again..

Setter :: Setter (n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.

Set :: 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..

Resetter :: Resetter (n.) One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal..

Setter :: Setter (n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching..

Setter :: Setter (n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.

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..

Printer :: Printer (n.) One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman..

Pegroots :: Pegroots (n.) Same as Setterwort.

Wadsetter :: Wadsetter (n.) One who holds by a wadset.

Besetter :: Besetter (n.) One who, or that which, besets..

Feathered :: Feathered (a.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog..

Setter :: Setter (n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.