5. To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt. Specifically: —
(a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
Tables for to sette, and beddes make.
Chaucer. (b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
(c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm. Fielding.
(d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.
(e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock.
(f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.
Shak. 7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.
Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
Dryden. 8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
High on their heads, with jewels richly set,
Each lady wore a radiant coronet.
Dryden.
Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
Wordsworth. 10. To value; to rate; — with at.
Be you contented, wearing now the garland,
To have a son set your decrees at naught.
Shak.
I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
Shak. 11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; — said of hunting dogs.
12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
learned.
13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]
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.
