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n.
One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.
a.
Containing three letters or characters, or three sets of letters or characters.
a.
Containing three sets of characters or sculptures.
v. i.
To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
n.
Channel in which the tide sets.
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The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.
n.
Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
v. i.
To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
n.
The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
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One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong.
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.
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.
n.
An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes.
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One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser.
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A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.
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Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous flower.
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Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean.
v. t.
To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill.
a.
Woven double, as cloth or carpeting, by incorporating two sets of warp thread and two of weft.
v. t.
The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
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