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Set :: Set (v. t.) To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt.

Flux :: Flux (n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux..

Forest :: Forest (n.) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own..

Squabble :: Squabble (v. t.) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up..

Russeting :: Russeting (n.) See Russet, n., 2 and 4..

Dandy :: Dandy (n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.

Dissettle :: Dissettle (v. t.) To unsettle.

Stale :: Stale (v. t.) Something set, or offered to view, as an allurement to draw others to any place or purpose; a decoy; a stool pigeon..

Millet :: Millet (n.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica..

Oversetting :: Oversetting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overse.

Land :: Land (v. t.) To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes..

Equisetaceous :: Equisetaceous (a.) Belonging to the Equisetaceae, or Horsetail family..

Refracture :: Refracture (n.) A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.

Creamery :: Creamery (n.) A place or apparatus in which milk is set for raising cream.

Heddle :: Heddle (n.) One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom..

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..

Mess :: Mess (n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time..

Renverse :: Renverse (a.) Reversed; set with the head downward; turned contrary to the natural position.

Swarm :: Swarm (n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive..

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