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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
1. The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
2. The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter. --Boyle.
3. Something set in, or inserted.
Thou shalt set in it settings of stones. --Ex. xxviii. 17.
4. That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.
5. the time, place, and circumstances in which an event (real or fictional) occurs; as, the setting of a novel. [PJC]
{Setting coat} (Arch.), the finishing or last coat of plastering on walls or ceilings.
{Setting dog}, a setter. See {Setter}, noun, 2.
{Setting pole}, a pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing boats along in shallow water.
{Setting rule}. (Print.) A composing rule.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Set}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Setting}.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian, OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel. setja, Sw. s[aum]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative from the root of E. sit. [root]154. See {Sit}, and cf. {Seize}.]
1. To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.
I do set my bow in the cloud. --Gen. ix. 13.
2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
Set your affection on things above. --Col. iii. 2.
The Lord set a mark upon Cain. --Gen. iv. 15.
3. To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut. xxviii. 1.
I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt. x. 35.
Every incident sets him thinking. --Coleridge.
4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to. Specifically: (a) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud.
They show how hard they are set in this particular. --Addison. (b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1 Kings xiv. 4.
On these three objects his heart was set. --Macaulay.
Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint. --Tennyson. (c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard. (d) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash.
And him too rich a jewel to be set In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden. (e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt. Specifically: (a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer. (b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship. (c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding. (d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone. (e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock. (f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.
Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute. --Dryden.
8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
High on their heads, with jewels richly set, Each lady wore a radiant coronet. --Dryden.
Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms. --Wordsworth.
10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
Be you contented, wearing now the garland, To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.
12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.
13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page.
{To set abroach}. See {Abroach}. [Obs.] --Shak.
{To set against}, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one thing against another.
{To set agoing}, to cause to move.
{To set apart}, to separate to a particular use; to separate from the rest; to reserve.
{To set a saw}, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent the saw from sticking.
{To set aside}. (a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to neglect; to reject; to annul.
Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that. --Tillotson. (b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of one's income. (c) (Law) See under {Aside}.
{To set at defiance}, to defy.
{To set at ease}, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the heart at ease.
{To set at naught}, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel." --Prov. i. 25.
{To set a trap} {To set a snare}, or {To set a gin}, to put it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence, to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's power.
{To set at work}, or {To set to work}. (a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how tu enter on work. (b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.
{To set before}. (a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit. (b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.
{To set by}. (a) To set apart or on one side; to reject. (b) To attach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a straw by thy dreamings." --Chaucer.
{To set by the compass}, to observe and note the bearing or situation of by the compass.
{To set case}, to suppose; to assume. Cf. {Put case}, under {Put}, verb (used with an object) [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{To set down}. (a) To enter in writing; to register.
Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army. --Clarendon. (b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
This law we may name eternal, being that order which God . . . hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by. --Hooker. (c) To humiliate.
{To set eyes on}, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.
{To set fire to}, or {To set on fire}, to communicate fire to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to irritate.
{To set flying} (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc., instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; -- said of a sail.
{To set forth}. (a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt; to display. (b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller. (c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
{To set forward}. (a) To cause to advance. (b) To promote.
{To set free}, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.
{To set in}, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to. [Obs.]
If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself. --Collier.
{To set in order}, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method. "The rest will I set in order when I come." --1 Cor. xi. 34.
{To set milk}. (a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream may rise to the surface. (b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of rennet. See 4 (e) .
{To set much by} or {To set little by}, to care much, or little, for.
{To set of}, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of his proverbs." --Chaucer.
{To set off}. (a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of an estate. (b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
They . . . set off the worst faces with the best airs. --Addison. (c) To give a flattering description of.
{To set off against}, to place against as an equivalent; as, to set off one man's services against another's.
{To set on} or {To set upon}. (a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this." --Shak. (b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to observe." --Shak. (c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's heart or affections on some object. See definition 2, above.
{To set one's cap for}. See under {Cap}, noun
{To set one's self against}, to place one's self in a state of enmity or opposition to.
{To set one's teeth}, to press them together tightly.
{To set on foot}, to set going; to put in motion; to start.
{To set out}. (a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an estate; to set out the widow's thirds. (b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.] (c) To adorn; to embellish.
An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can become. --Dryden. (d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war. --Addison. (e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
I could set out that best side of Luther. --Atterbury. (f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out how heinous his sin was." --Atterbury. (g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.
{To set over}. (a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector, ruler, or commander. (b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.
{To set right}, to correct; to put in order.
{To set sail}. (Naut.) See under {Sail}, noun
{To set store by}, to consider valuable.
{To set the fashion}, to determine what shall be the fashion; to establish the mode.
{To set the teeth on edge}, to affect the teeth with a disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in contact with them.
{To set the watch} (Naut.), to place the starboard or port watch on duty.
{To set to}, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to his seal that God is true." --John iii. 33.
{To set up}. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a pillar. (b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set up the throne of David over Israel." --2 Sam. iii. 10. (c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to set up a school. (d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a son in trade. (e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark. (f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
I'll set up such a note as she shall hear. --Dryden. (g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as, to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet. (h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune; as, this good fortune quite set him up. (i) To intoxicate. [Slang] (j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing; as, to set up type.
{To set up the rigging} (Naut.), to make it taut by means of tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: the context and environment in which something is set; "the perfect setting for a ghost story" [syn: {setting}, {scene}]
2: the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting" [syn: {setting}, {background}, {scope}]
3: arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted [syn: {mise en scene}, {stage setting}, {setting}]
4: the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the historical context" [syn: {context}, {circumstance}, {setting}]
5: the physical position of something; "he changed the setting on the thermostat"
6: a table service for one person; "a place setting of sterling flatware" [syn: {place setting}, {setting}]
7: a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place; "the diamond was in a plain gold mount" [syn: {mount}, {setting}]
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