Atterbury.
(f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out how heinous his
sin was." Atterbury. (g) (Law) To recite; to state at large. -- To set
over. (a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector, ruler, or
commander. (b) To assign; to transfer; to convey. -- To set right, to
correct; to put in order. -- To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n. --
To set store by, to consider valuable. -- To set the fashion, to
determine what shall be the fashion; to establish the mode. -- To set
the teeth on edge, to affect the teeth with a disagreeable sensation,
as when acids are brought in contact with them. -- To set the watch
(Naut.), to place the starboard or port watch on duty. -- To set to, to
attach to; to affix to. "He . . . hath set to his seal that God is
true." John iii. 33. -- To set up. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate;
as, to set up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
pillar. (b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set up the
throne of David over Israel." 2 Sam. iii. 10. (c) To begin, as a new
institution; to institute; to establish; to found; as, to set up a
manufactory; to set up a school. (d) To enable to commence a new
business; as, to set up a son in trade. (e) To place in view; as, to
set up a mark. (f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
Dryden.
(g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as, to set up a
new opinion or doctrine. T. Burnet. (h) To raise from depression, or to
a sufficient fortune; as, this good fortune quite set him up. (i) To
intoxicate. [Slang] (j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing; as, to set up type.
-- To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of tackles.
R. H. Dana, Jr.
Syn. -- See Put.
Set (st), v. i. 1. To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline;
to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
Ere the weary sun set in the west.
Shak.
Thus this century sets with little mirth, and the next is likely to
arise with more mourning.
Fuller.