Definition of set

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Set (n.) A young oyster when first attached.

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Array :: Array (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man..
Setting :: Setting (n.) Something set in, or inserted..
Dedication :: Dedication (n.) The act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of Solomon's temple..
Shore :: Shore (v. t.) To set on shore.
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.
Settle :: Settle (n.) Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill..
Combustible :: Combustible (n.) A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn..
Cachalot :: Cachalot (n.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale..
Setous :: Setous (a.) Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
Corset :: Corset (n.) An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.
Indecision :: Indecision (n.) Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation..
Seta :: Seta (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss..
Inserting :: Inserting (n.) A setting in.
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..
Quintette :: Quintette (n.) A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music..
Enkindle :: Enkindle (v. t.) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.
Creel :: Creel (n.) A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule..
Place :: Place (n.) To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.
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..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc..
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