Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of set is as below...

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..

Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..

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.].

Offset :: Offset (n.) An abrupt bend in an object, as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside..

Liquidate :: Liquidate (v. t.) In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness)..

Sag :: Sag (v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced..

Thomsonianism :: Thomsonianism (n.) An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts..

Ambry :: Ambry (n.) A store closet, as a pantry, cupboard, etc..

Studbook :: Stud (v. t.) To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs..

Plate :: Plate (n.) That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc..

Emancipation :: Emancipation (n.) The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection..

Object :: Object (v. t.) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

Stool :: Stook (v. t.) To set up, as sheaves of grain, in stooks..

Prefer :: Prefer (v. t.) To set above or before something else in estimation, favor, or liking; to regard or honor before another; to hold in greater favor; to choose rather; -- often followed by to, before, or above..

Stylet :: Stylet (n.) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain..

Opinion :: Opinion (n.) That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action..

Butteris :: Butteris (n.) A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses..

Sunk :: Sunglow (n.) A rosy flush in the sky seen after sunset.

Outsettler :: Outsettler (n.) One who settles at a distance, or away, from others..

Random Fonts

Most Popular