Prepare as the dinner table
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Definition
| • | of Set |
| • | 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. |
| • | Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance. |
| • | To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese. |
| • | To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt. |
| • | To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw. |
| • | To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship. |
| • | To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm. |
| • | To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone. |
| • | To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock. |
| • | To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure. |
| • | To stake at play; to wager; to risk. |
| • | To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing. |
| • | To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse. |
| • | To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there. |
| • | To value; to rate; -- with at. |
| • | To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs. |
| • | To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned. |
| • | To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. |
| • | To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page. |
| • | To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end. |
| • | To fit music to words. |
| • | To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant. |
| • | 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). |
| • | To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened. |
| • | To congeal; to concrete; to solidify. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out. |
| • | To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well. |
| • | Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance. |
| • | Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices. |
| • | Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle. |
| • | Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer. |
| • | Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted. |
| • | The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination. |
| • | That which is set, placed, or fixed. |
| • | A young plant for growth; as, a set of white thorn. |
| • | That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture. |
| • | Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring. |
| • | A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique. |
| • | Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current. |
| • | In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A young oyster when first attached. |
| • | Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality. |
| • | 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. |
| • | That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width. |
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