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Onset :: Onset (n.) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage..

Freedman :: Freedman (n.) A man who has been a slave, and has been set free..

Appraisement :: Appraisement (n.) The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.

Wadset :: Wadset (n.) A kind of pledge or mortgage.

Rowel :: Rowel (n.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery..

Manometer :: Manometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump..

Topsail :: Topsail (n.) In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship..

Vagous :: Vagous (a.) Wandering; unsettled.

Devastavit :: Devastavit (n.) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.

Dittied :: Dittied (a.) Set, sung, or composed as a ditty; -- usually in composition..

Typesetter :: Typesetter (n.) One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type..

Compound :: Compound (v. t.) To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt..

Setout :: Setout (n.) A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed..

Backstitch :: Backstitch (n.) A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end..

Basset :: Basset (n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice..

Compone :: Compone (v. t.) To compose; to settle; to arrange.

Table :: Table (n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table..

Septemberer :: Septemberer (n.) A Setembrist.

Column :: Column (n.) A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper..

Footfall :: Footfall (n.) A setting down of the foot; a footstep; the sound of a footstep.

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