(d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]
The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
Addison. (e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
I could set out that best side of Luther.
Atterbury. (f) To show; to prove. [R.] "Those very reasons set out how heinous his sin was." Atterbury. (g) (Law)
To recite; to state at large. — To set over. (a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector, ruler,
or commander. (b) To assign; to transfer; to convey. — To set right, to correct; to put in order. —
To set sail. (Naut.) See under Sail, n. — To set store by, to consider valuable. — To set the
fashion, to determine what shall be the fashion; to establish the mode. — To set the teeth on edge,
to affect the teeth with a disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in contact with them. —
To set the watch (Naut.), to place the starboard or port watch on duty. — To set to, to attach to; to
affix to. "He . . . hath set to his seal that God is true." John iii. 33. — To set up. (a) To erect; to
raise; to elevate; as, to set up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a pillar. (b) Hence, to
exalt; to put in power. "I will . . . set up the throne of David over Israel." 2 Sam. iii. 10. (c) To begin,
as a new institution; to institute; to establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to set up a school. (d)
To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a son in trade. (e) To place in view; as, to set
up a mark. (f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.
I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
Dryden. (g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as, to set up a new opinion or doctrine. T. Burnet.
(h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune; as, this good fortune quite set him up. (i) To
intoxicate. [Slang] (j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to arrange in words, lines, etc., ready
for printing; as, to set up type. — To set up the rigging (Naut.), to make it taut by means of tackles.
R. H. Dana, Jr.
Syn. — See Put.
Set
(Set) v. i.
1. To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
Ere the weary sun set in the west.
Shak.
Thus this century sets with little mirth, and the next is likely to arise with more mourning.
Fuller. 2. To fit music to words. [Obs.] Shak.
3. To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant. "To sow dry, and set wet." Old Proverb.
4. To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has
set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
5. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
A gathering and serring of the spirits together to resist, maketh the teeth to set hard one against another.
Bacon. 6. To congeal; to concrete; to solidify.
That fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set.
Boyle.
