Definition of set

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Set (n.) That which is set, placed, or fixed..

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Willful :: Willful (a.) Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder..
Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate..
Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod..
Occasive :: Occasive (a.) Of or pertaining to the setting sun; falling; descending; western.
Keeper :: Keeper (n.) A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper..
Sanctification :: Sanctification (n.) The act of consecrating, or of setting apart for a sacred purpose; consecration..
Whipsaw :: Whipsaw (n.) A saw for dividing timber lengthwise, usually set in a frame, and worked by two persons; also, a fret saw..
Valuation :: Valuation (n.) Value set upon a thing; estimated value or worth; as, the goods sold for more than their valuation..
Scene :: Scene (n.) The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action..
Recorder :: Recorder (n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court..
Diphyodont :: Diphyodont (n.) An animal having two successive sets of teeth.
Object :: Object (v. t.) That which is set, or which may be regarded as set, before the mind so as to be apprehended or known; that of which the mind by any of its activities takes cognizance, whether a thing external in space or a conception formed by the mind itself; as, an object of knowledge, wonder, fear, thought, study, etc..
Musette :: Musette (n.) An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance..
Candock :: Candock (n.) A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum)..
Onset :: Onset (v. t.) To assault; to set upon.
Rest :: Rest (n.) A set or game at tennis.
Set :: Set (n.) A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc..
Hegelism :: Hegelism (n.) The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831)..
Authorize :: Authorize (v. t.) To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary..
File :: File (v. t.) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers..
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