(b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of one's income. (c) (Law) See under Aside. — To
set at defiance, to defy. — To set at ease, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the heart at ease. —
To set at naught, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel." Prov.
i. 25. — To set a trap, snare, or gin, to put it in a proper condition or position to catch prey; hence,
to lay a plan to deceive and draw another into one's power. — To set at work, or To set to work.
(a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how tu enter on work. (b) To apply one's self; —
used reflexively. — To set before. (a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit. (b) To propose for
choice to; to offer to. — To set by. (a) To set apart or on one side; to reject. (b) To attach the value
of (anything) to. "I set not a straw by thy dreamings." Chaucer. — To set by the compass, to observe
and note the bearing or situation of by the compass. — To set case, to suppose; to assume. Cf. Put
case, under Put, v. t. [Obs.] Chaucer. — To set down. (a) To enter in writing; to register.
Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.
Clarendon. (b) 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. (c) To humiliate. — To set eyes on, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on. — To set fire to, or
To set on fire, to communicate fire to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to irritate. — To set
flying (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc., instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; —
said of a sail. — To set forth. (a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt; to display. (b) To
publish; to promulgate; to make appear. Waller. (c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]
The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty galleys, set forth by the Venetians.
Knolles. —
To set forward. (a) To cause to advance. (b) To promote. — To set free, to release from confinement,
imprisonment, or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate. — To set in, to put in the way; to begin; to give a
start to. [Obs.]
If you please to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself.
Collier. —
To set in order, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method. "The rest will I set in order when I come."
1 Cor. xi. 34. — To set milk. (a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream may rise to the
surface. (b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of rennet. See 4 (e). — To set much,
or little, by, to care much, or little, for. — To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of
his proverbs." Chaucer. — To set off. (a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular purpose; to
portion off; as, to set off a portion of an estate. (b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.
They . . . set off the worst faces with the best airs.
Addison. (c) To give a flattering description of. - - To set off against, to place against as an equivalent; as, to
set off one man's services against another's. — To set on or upon. (a) To incite; to instigate. "Thou,
traitor, hast set on thy wife to this." Shak. (b) To employ, as in a task. " Set on thy wife to observe."
Shak. (c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's heart or affections on some object. See
definition 2, above. — To set one's cap for. See under Cap, n. — To set one's self against, to
place one's self in a state of enmity or opposition to. — To set one's teeth, to press them together
tightly. — To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start. — To set out. (a) To assign; to allot; to
mark off; to limit; as, to set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an estate; to set out the widow's
thirds. (b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.] (c) To adorn; to embellish.
An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can become.
Dryden.
