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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 tooppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one thing againstanother.-- To set agoing, to cause to move.-- To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to separate fromthe rest; to reserve.-- To set a saw, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate onebeing 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 thethickness 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 thetruth, 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 atease.-- To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise. "Ye haveset at naught all my counsel." Prov. i. 25.-- To set a trap, snare, or gin, to put it in a proper condition orposition to catch prey; hence, to lay a plan to deceive and drawanother into one's power.-- To set at work, or To set to work. (a) To cause to enter on workor action, or to direct how tu enter on work. (b) To apply one'sself; -- 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) Toattach the value of (anything) to. "I set not a straw by thydreamings." Chaucer.-- To set by the compass, to observe and note the bearing orsituation 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 . . . hathset 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., insteadof 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; toexhibt; 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 theVenetians. Knolles.-- To set forward. (a) To cause to advance. (b) To promote.-- To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, orbondage; 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. "Therest 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 thecream may rise to the surface. (b) To cause it to become curdled asby 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 hisproverbs." Chaucer.-- To set off. (a) To separate from a whole; to assign to aparticular purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of anestate. (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 setoff 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 attachstrongly to; as, to set one's heart or affections on some object. Seedefinition 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 ofenmity 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 setout 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 heinoushis 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; toconvey.-- 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; toestablish the mode.-- To set the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a disagreeablesensation, as when acids are brought in contact with them.-- To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port watch onduty.-- To set to, to attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to hisseal that God is true." John iii. 33.-- To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set up abuilding, 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 ofDavid over Israel." 2 Sam. iii. 10. (c) To begin, as a newinstitution; to institute; to establish; to found; as, to set up amanufactory; to set up a school. (d) To enable to commence a newbusiness; as, to set up a son in trade. (e) To place in view; as, toset up a mark. (f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up thevoice.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 anew opinion or doctrine. T. Burnet. (h) To raise from depression, orto a sufficient fortune; as, this good fortune quite set him up. (i)To intoxicate. [Slang] (j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set upcopy; to arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing; as, toset up type.-- To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means oftackles. R. H. Dana, Jr.