6. In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille;
also, the series of figures or movements executed.
7. The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes
the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade.
8. (a) A young oyster when first attached. (b) Collectively, the crop
of young oysters in any locality.
9. (Tennis) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one
side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie,
the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of
the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.
10. (Type Founding) That dimension of the body of a type called by
printers the width.
Dead set. (a) The act of a setter dog when it discovers the game, and
remains intently fixed in pointing it out. (b) A fixed or stationary
condition arising from obstacle or hindrance; a deadlock; as, to be at
a dead set. (c) A concerted scheme to defraud by gaming; a determined
onset. -- To make a dead set, to make a determined onset, literally or
figuratively.
Syn. -- Collection; series; group. See Pair.
||Se"ta (?), n.; pl. Setæ. [L. seta, saeta, a bristle.] 1. (Biol.) 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.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an
annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are
used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form. (b)
One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.
Se*ta"ceous (?), a. [L. seta a bristle: cf. F. sétacé.] 1. Set with, or
consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail.
2. Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous
leaf.
Set"back` (?), n. 1. (Arch.) Offset, n., 4.