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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. t. [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["a]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.
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              I do set my bow in the cloud.         --Gen. ix. 13.
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     2. Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else,
        or in or upon a certain place.
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              Set your affection on things above.   --Col. iii. 2.
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              The Lord set a mark upon Cain.        --Gen. iv. 15.
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     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.
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              The Lord thy God will set thee on high. --Deut.
                                                    xxviii. 1.
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              I am come to set a man at variance against his
              father, and the daughter against her mother. --Matt.
                                                    x. 35.
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              Every incident sets him thinking.     --Coleridge.
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     4. To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to
        render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or
        condition to. Specifically: 
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        (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.
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                  They show how hard they are set in this
                  particular.                       --Addison.
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        (b) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make
            unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or
            rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
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                  His eyes were set by reason of his age. --1
                                                    Kings xiv. 4.
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                  On these three objects his heart was set.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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                  Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a
                  flint.                            --Tennyson.
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        (c) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant;
            as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
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        (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.
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                  And him too rich a jewel to be set
                  In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. --Dryden.
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        (e) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into
            curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
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     5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to
        regulate; to adapt. Specifically:
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        (a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
            as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
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                  Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
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        (b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
            set the sails of a ship.
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        (c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
            keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
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        (d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
            replace; as, to set a broken bone.
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        (e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
            watch or a clock.
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        (f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
            blocks of cut stone in a structure.
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     6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
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              I have set my life upon a cast,
              And I will stand the hazard of the die. --Shak.
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     7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
        for singing.
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              Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
        time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
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     9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
        variegate with objects placed here and there.
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              High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
              Each lady wore a radiant coronet.     --Dryden.
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              Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
                                                    --Wordsworth.
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     10. To value; to rate; -- with at.
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               Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
               To have a son set your decrees at naught. --Shak.
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               I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.
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     11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
         game; -- said of hunting dogs.
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     12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
         assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
         learned.
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     13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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     14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
         as, to set type; to set a page.
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     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.
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                   Setting aside all other considerations, I will
                   endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
                                                    --Tillotson.
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         (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, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
     To set down.
         (a) To enter in writing; to register.
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                   Some rules were to be set down for the
                   government of the army.          --Clarendon.
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         (b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
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                   This law we may name eternal, being that order
                   which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
                   himself to do all things by.     --Hooker.
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         (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.]
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                   The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
                   galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.
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     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.]
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              If you please to assist and set me in, I will
              recollect myself.                     --Collier.
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     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.
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                   They . . . set off the worst faces with the
                   best airs.                       --Addison.
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         (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, n.
  
     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.
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                   An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
                   jewels, nothing can become.      --Dryden.
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         (d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
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                   The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
                   case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
                                                    --Addison.
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         (e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
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                   I could set out that best side of Luther.
                                                    --Atterbury.
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         (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, n.
  
     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.
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                   I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
                                                    --Dryden.
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         (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.
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     Syn: See Put.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. i.
     1. To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink
        out of sight; to come to an end.
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              Ere the weary sun set in the west.    --Shak.
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              Thus this century sets with little mirth, and the
              next is likely to arise with more mourning.
                                                    --Fuller.
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     2. To fit music to words. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     3. To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant. ``To
        sow dry, and set wet.'' --Old Proverb.
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     4. To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to
        germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has
        set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
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     5. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
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              A gathering and serring of the spirits together to
              resist, maketh the teeth to set hard one against
              another.                              --Bacon.
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     6. To congeal; to concrete; to solidify; -- of cements,
        glues, gels, concrete, substances polymerizing into
        plastics, etc.
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              That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set.
                                                    --Boyle.
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     7. 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.
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     8. To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now
        followed by out.
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              The king is set from London.          --Shak.
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     9. 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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     10. To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now
         followed by out.
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               If he sets industriously and sincerely to perform
               the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of
               doubting but it shall prove successful to him.
                                                    --Hammond.
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     11. To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
  
     Note: [Colloquially used, but improperly, for sit.]
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     Note: The use of the verb set for sit in such expressions as,
           the hen is setting on thirteen eggs; a setting hen,
           etc., although colloquially common, and sometimes
           tolerated in serious writing, is not to be approved.
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     To set about, to commence; to begin.
  
     To set forward, to move or march; to begin to march; to
        advance.
  
     To set forth, to begin a journey.
  
     To set in.
         (a) To begin; to enter upon a particular state; as,
             winter set in early.
         (b) To settle one's self; to become established. ``When
             the weather was set in to be very bad.'' --Addison.
         (c) To flow toward the shore; -- said of the tide.
  
     To set off.
         (a) To enter upon a journey; to start.
         (b) (Typog.) To deface or soil the next sheet; -- said of
             the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another
             sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time
             to dry.
  
     To set on or To set upon.
         (a) To begin, as a journey or enterprise; to set about.
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                   He that would seriously set upon the search of
                   truth.                           --Locke.
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         (b) To assault; to make an attack. --Bacon.
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                   Cassio hath here been set on in the dark.
                                                    --Shak.
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     To set out, to begin a journey or course; as, to set out
        for London, or from London; to set out in business;to set
        out in life or the world.
  
     To set to, to apply one's self to.
  
     To set up.
         (a) To begin business or a scheme of life; as, to set up
             in trade; to set up for one's self.
         (b) To profess openly; to make pretensions.
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                   Those men who set up for mortality without
                   regard to religion, are generally but virtuous
                   in part.                         --Swift.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  
        (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, snare, or 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, v. t. [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, or 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 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, n.
  
     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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), v. i.
     1. To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink
        out of sight; to come to an end.
  
              Ere the weary sun set in the west.    --Shak.
  
              Thus this century sets with little mirth, and the
              next is likely to arise with more mourning.
                                                    --Fuller.
  
     2. To fit music to words. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
     3. To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant. ``To
        sow dry, and set wet.'' --Old Proverb.
  
     4. To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to
        germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has
        set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
  
     5. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
  
              A gathering and serring of the spirits together to
              resist, maketh the teeth to set hard one against
              another.                              --Bacon.
  
     6. To congeal; to concrete; to solidify.
  
              That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set.
                                                    --Boyle.
  
     7. 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.
  
     8. To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now
        followed by out.
  
              The king is set from London.          --Shak.
  
     9. 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.
  
     10. To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now
         followed by out.
  
               If he sets industriously and sincerely to perform
               the commands of Christ, he can have no ground of
               doubting but it shall prove successful to him.
                                                    --Hammond.
  
     11. To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
  
     Note: [Colloquially used, but improperly, for sit.]
  
     Note: The use of the verb set for sit in such expressions as,
           the hen is setting on thirteen eggs; a setting hen,
           etc., although colloquially common, and sometimes
           tolerated in serious writing, is not to be approved.
  
     To set about, to commence; to begin.
  
     To set forward, to move or march; to begin to march; to
        advance.
  
     To set forth, to begin a journey.
  
     To set in.
         (a) To begin; to enter upon a particular state; as,
             winter set in early.
         (b) To settle one's self; to become established. ``When
             the weather was set in to be very bad.'' --Addison.
         (c) To flow toward the shore; -- said of the tide.
  
     To set off.
         (a) To enter upon a journey; to start.
         (b) (Typog.) To deface or soil the next sheet; -- said of
             the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another
             sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time
             to dry.
  
     To set on or upon.
         (a) To begin, as a journey or enterprise; to set about.
  
                   He that would seriously set upon the search of
                   truth.                           --Locke.
         (b) To assault; to make an attack. --Bacon.
  
                   Cassio hath here been set on in the dark.
                                                    --Shak.
  
     To set out, to begin a journey or course; as, to set out
        for London, or from London; to set out in business;to set
        out in life or the world.
  
     To set to, to apply one's self to.
  
     To set up.
         (a) To begin business or a scheme of life; as, to set up
             in trade; to set up for one's self.
         (b) To profess openly; to make pretensions.
  
                   Those men who set up for mortality without
                   regard to religion, are generally but virtuous
                   in part.                         --Swift.

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  to set off /tə sˈɛt ˈɒf/
  1. elindul
  2. elindít
  3. elsüt
  4. átüt
  5. érvényre juttat
  6. lehúzódik
  7. kivált
  8. elválaszt
  9. ellensúlyoz
  10. elôhoz
  11. beállít
  12. maszatol
  13. kitûz
  14. kiemel
  15. kihangsúlyoz
  16. lépcsôssé tesz
  17. kilô
  18. útnak indul
  19. felrobbant

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