Definition of set

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Set (v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.

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Set :: Set (n.) That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.
Displant :: Displant (v. t.) To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants..
Book :: Book (n.) Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set..
Article :: Article (n.) To formulate in articles; to set forth in distinct particulars.
Wager :: Wager (v. t.) Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge..
Queasy :: Queasy (a.) Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish.
Becard :: Becard (n.) A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).
Setiferous :: Setiferous (a.) Producing, or having one or more, bristles..
Pair :: Pair (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. A pair of beads. Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. Four pair of stairs. Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.].
Backset :: Backset (n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water..
Redstart :: Redstart (n.) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches..
Bannerol :: Bannerol (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
Motorial :: Motorial (n.) Causing or setting up motion; pertaining to organs of motion; -- applied especially in physiology to those nerves or nerve fibers which only convey impressions from a nerve center to muscles, thereby causing motion..
Repose :: Repose (v.) To place, have, or rest; to set; to intrust..
Sundial :: Sundew (n.) Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort..
Displayed :: Displayed (a.) Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye..
Crown Wheel :: Crown wheel () A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.
Transplant :: Transplant (v. t.) To remove, and settle or establish for residence in another place; as, to transplant inhabitants..
Pitch :: Pitch (v. t.) To set or fix, as a price or value..
Embronze :: Embronze (v. t.) To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person..
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