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Definition of setter

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Setter (n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching..

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Resetter :: Resetter (n.) One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal..

Bonesetter :: Bonesetter (n.) One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones..

Setter :: Setter (n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.

Wadsetter :: Wadsetter (n.) One who holds by a wadset.

Besetter :: Besetter (n.) One who, or that which, besets..

Printer :: Printer (n.) One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman..

Setter :: Setter (n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching..

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

Setter :: Setter (n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.

Undersetter :: Undersetter (n.) One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal..

Roughsetter :: Roughsetter (n.) A mason who builds rough stonework.

Feather :: Feather (n.) The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

Feathered :: Feathered (a.) Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog..

Setterwort :: Setterwort (n.) The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots..

Pegroots :: Pegroots (n.) Same as Setterwort.

Plumbism :: Plumbism (n.) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and Wrist..

Setting :: Setting (n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter..

Setter :: Setter (n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.

Setter :: Setter (n.) One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth..

Setter :: Setter (n.) An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.