14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set
type; to set a page.
To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] Shak. -- To set against, to oppose;
to set in comparison with, or to oppose to, as an equivalent in
exchange; as, to set one thing against another. -- To set agoing, to
cause to move. -- To set apart, to separate to a particular use; to
separate from the rest; to reserve. -- To set a saw, to bend each tooth
a little, every alternate one being bent to one side, and the
intermediate ones to the other side, so that the opening made by the
saw may be a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
the saw from sticking. -- To set aside. (a) To leave out of account; to
pass by; to omit; to neglect; to reject; to annul.
Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavor to know the
truth, and yield to that.
Tillotson.
(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of one's income.
(c) (Law) See under Aside. -- To set at defiance, to defy. -- To set at
ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the heart at ease. -- To set
at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise. "Ye have set at
naught all my counsel." Prov. i. 25. -- To set a trap, snare, or gin,
to put it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence, to
lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's power. -- To set at
work, or To set to work. (a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to
direct how tu enter on work. (b) To apply one's self; -- used
reflexively. -- To set before. (a) To bring out to view before; to
exhibit. (b) To propose for choice to; to offer to. -- To set by. (a)
To set apart or on one side; to reject. (b) To attach the value of
(anything) to. "I set not a straw by thy dreamings." Chaucer. -- To set
by the compass, to observe and note the bearing or situation of by the
compass. -- To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put case, under
Put, v. t. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To set down. (a) To enter in writing; to
register.
Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.
Clarendon.
(b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.
This law we may name eternal, being that order which God . . . hath
set down with himself, for himself to do all things by.
Hooker.
(c) To humiliate. -- To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the
eyes on. -- To set fire to, or To set on fire, to communicate fire to;
fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to irritate. -- To set
flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc., instead of extending
with rings or the like on a stay; -- said of a sail. -- To set forth.
(a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt; to display.
(b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. Waller. (c) To send out;
to prepare and send. [Obs.]
The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the
Venetians.
Knolles.
-- To set forward. (a) To cause to advance. (b) To promote. -- To set
free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or bondage; to
liberate; to emancipate. -- To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to
give a start to. [Obs.]
If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself.
Collier.
-- To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method. "The
rest will I set in order when I come." 1 Cor. xi. 34. -- To set milk.
(a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream may rise to the
surface. (b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of rennet.
See 4 (e). -- To set much, or little, by, to care much, or little, for.
-- To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of his
proverbs." Chaucer. -- To set off. (a) To separate from a whole; to
assign to a particular purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a
portion of an estate. (b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
They . . . set off the worst faces with the best airs.
Addison.
(c) To give a flattering description of. - - To set off against, to
place against as an equivalent; as, to set off one man's services
against another's. -- To set on or upon. (a) To incite; to instigate.
"Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this." Shak. (b) To employ, as
in a task. " Set on thy wife to observe." Shak. (c) To fix upon; to
attach strongly to; as, to set one's heart or affections on some
object. See definition 2, above. -- To set one's cap for. See under
Cap, n. -- To set one's self against, to place one's self in a state of
enmity or opposition to. -- To set one's teeth, to press them together
tightly. -- To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start.
-- To set out. (a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an estate; to set out
the widow's thirds. (b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.] (c) To
adorn; to embellish.
An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can
become.
Dryden.
(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great
necessity, thirty men-of-war.
Addison.
(e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.