Set
SET, verb transitive preterit tense participle passive set. [Latin sedo; to compose, as a book, to dispose or put in order, to establish, found or institute, to possess, to cease; Latin sedo, sedeo and sido, coinciding with sit, but all of one family. From the Norman orthography of this word, we have assess, assise. See Assess. Heb. Ch. to set to place.]
1. To put or place; to fix or cause to rest in a standing posture. We set a house on a wass of stone; we set a book on a shelf. In this use, set differs from lay; we set a thing on its end or basis; we lay it on its side.
2. To put or place in its proper or natural posture. We set a chest or trunk on its bottom, not its end; we set a bedstead or a table on its feet or laeg.
3. To put, place or fix in any situation. God set the sun, moon and stars in the firmament.
I do set my bow in the cloud. [[Genesis 9#13|Genesis 9:13]].
4. To put into any condition or state.
The Lord the God will set thee on high. Duet. 28.
I am come to set a man at variance against his father. [[Matthew 10#35|Matthew 10:35]].
So we say, to set in order, to set at ease, to set to work, or at work.
5. To put; to fix; to attach to.
The Lord set a mark upon Cain. [[Genesis 4#15|Genesis 4:15]].
So we say, to set a label on a vial or a bale.
6. To fix; to render motionless; as, the eyes are set, the jaws are set.
7. To put or fix, as a price. We set a price on a house, farm or horse.
8. To fix; to state by some rule.
The gentleman spoke with a set gesture and countenance. Carew.
The town of Berne has handsome fountains planted and set distances from one end of the street to the other. Addison.
9. To regulate or adjust; as, to set a timepiece by the sun.
He sets judgement by his passion. Prior.
10. To fit to music; to adapt with notes; as, to set the words of a psalm to music.
Set thy own songs, and sing them to they lute. Dryden.
11. To pitch; to begin to sing in public.
He set the hundredth psalm. Spectator.
12. To plant, as a shrub, tree or vegetable.
13. To variegate, intersperse or adorn with something fixed; to stud; as, to set any thing with diamonds or pearls.
High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. Dryden.
14. To return to its proper place or state; to replace; to reduce from dislocated or fractured state; as, to set a bone or a leg.
15. To fix; to place; as the heart or affections.
Set your affections on things above. [[Colossians 3#2|Colossians 3:2]].
-Minds altogether set on trade and profit. Addison.
16. To fix firmly; to predetermine.
The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. [[Ecclesiastes 8#11|Ecclesiastes 8:11]].
Hence we say, a thing is done of set purpose; a man is set, that is, firm or obstinate in his opinion or way.
17. To fix by appointment; to appoint; to assign; as, to set a time for meeting; to set an hour or day.
18. To place or station; to appoint to a particular duty.
Am I a sea or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me.
19. To stake at play. [Little used.]
20. To offer a wager at dice to another. [Little used.]
21. To fix in metal.
And him to rich a jewel to be set
In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. Dryden.
22. To fix; to cause to stop; to obstruct; as, to set a coach in the mire. The wagon or the team was set at the hill. In some of the states, stall is used in a like sense.
They are hard set to represent the bill as a grievance. Addison.
24. To put in good order; to fix for use; to bring to a fine edge; as, to set a razor.
25. To loose and extend; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
26. To point out without noise or disturbance; as, a dog sets birds.
27. To oppose.
Will you set your wit to a fool's? Shak.
28. To prepare with runnet for cheese; as, to set milk.
29. To dim; to darken or extinguish.
Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. [[1 Kings 19#1|1 Kings 19:1]].
To set by the compass, among seamen, to observe the bearing or situation of a distant object by the compass.
To set about, to begin, as an action or enterprise; to apply to. He has planned his enterprise, and he will soon setabout it.
To set one's self against, to place in a state of emnity or opposition.
The king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. [[Ezekiel 24#2|Ezekiel 24:2]].
To set against, to oppose, to set in comparison, or to oppose as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one thing against another; or to set off one thing against another.
To set aside, to omit for the present; to lay out of the question.
Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavor to know the truth and yield to that. Tillotson.
2. To reject.
I embrace that of the deluge, and set aside all the rest. Woodward.
3. To annul; to vacate. The court set aside the verdict or the judgement.
To set abroach, to spread.
To set a-going, to cause to begin to move.
To set by, to set apart or on on side; to reject. [In this sense, by is emphatical.]
2. To esteem; to regard; to value. [In this sense, set is pronounced with more emphasis than by.]
To set down, to place upon the ground or floor.
2. To enter in writing; to register.
Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army. Clarendon.
3. To explain or relate in writing.
4. To fix on a resolve. [Little used.]
5. 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_._
To set forth