Sesterce (n.) A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents.
Sestet (n.) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor.
Sestet (n.) The last six lines of a sonnet.
Sestetto (n.) A sestet.
Sestine (n.) See Sextain.
Sestuor (n.) A sestet.
Set (imp. & p. p.) of Set
Setting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Set
Set (v. t.) To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.
Set (v. t.) Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
Set (v. t.) To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
Set (v. t.) To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to.
Set (v. t.) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud.
Set (v. t.) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
Set (v. t.) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
Set (v. t.) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash.
Set (v. t.) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
Set (v. t.) To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt.
Set (v. t.) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
Set (v. t.) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
Set (v. t.) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm.
Set (v. t.) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.
Set (v. t.) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock.
Set (v. t.) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
Set (v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
Set (v. t.) To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.
Set (v. t.) To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
Set (v. t.) To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
Set (v. t.) To value; to rate; -- with at.
Set (v. t.) To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.
Set (v. t.) To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.
Set (v. t.) To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill.
Set (v. t.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page.
Set (v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
Set (v. i.) To fit music to words.
Set (v. i.) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
Set (v. i.) 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).
Set (v. i.) To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
Set (v. i.) To congeal; to concrete; to solidify.
Set (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.
Set (v. i.) To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.
Set (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.
Set (v. i.) To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.
Set (v. i.) To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
Set (a.) Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance.
Set (a.) Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices.
Set (a.) Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle.
Set (a.) Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer.
Set (a.) Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted.
Set (n.) The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination.
Set (n.) That which is set, placed, or fixed.
Set (n.) A young plant for growth; as, a set of white thorn.
Set (n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture.
Set (n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring.
Set (n.) A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set.
Set (n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece.
Set (n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
Set (n.) A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc.
Set (n.) A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique.
Set (n.) Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current.
Set (n.) In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed.
Set (n.) The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade.
Set (n.) A young oyster when first attached.
Set (n.) Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
Set (n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.
Set (n.) That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.
Setae (pl. ) of Seta
Seta (n.) Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.
Seta (n.) One of the movable chitinous spines or hooks of an annelid. They usually arise in clusters from muscular capsules, and are used in locomotion and for defense. They are very diverse in form.
Seta (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.
Setaceous (a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail.
Setaceous (a.) Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf.
Setback (n.) Offset, n., 4.
Setback (n.) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
Setbolt (n.) An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together.
Setbolt (n.) A bolt used for forcing another bolt out of its hole.
Setdown (n.) The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect.
Setee (n.) See 2d Settee.
Seten () obs. imp. pl. of Sit. Sat.
Setewale (n.) See Cetewale.
Set-fair (n.) In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface.
Setfoil (n.) See Septfoil.
Sethen (adv. & conj.) See Since.
Sethic (a.) See Sothic.
Setiferous (a.) Producing, or having one or more, bristles.
Setiform (a.) Having the form or structure of setae.
Setiger (n.) An annelid having setae; a chaetopod.
Setigerous (a.) Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle.
Setim (n.) See Shittim.
Setiparous (a.) Producing setae; -- said of the organs from which the setae of annelids arise.
Setireme (n.) A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.
Setness (n.) The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy.
Set-off (n.) That which is set off against another thing; an offset.
Set-off (n.) That which is used to improve the appearance of anything; a decoration; an ornament.
Set-off (n.) A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filed or set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.
Set-off (n.) Same as Offset, n., 4.
Set-off (n.) See Offset, 7.
Seton (n.) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
Setose (a.) Alt. of Setous