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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..

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

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

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

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

Set :: Set (v. i.) To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter..

Setter :: Setter (v. t.) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue..

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..

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

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

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

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.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.

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

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..

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

Dropper :: Dropper (n.) A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter..

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

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

Flag :: Flag (n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter..

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