Sethite 
first pneumatic (spiritual) man, and believed that he reap- 
peared as Christ. Also Sethian. 
Setifera (se-tif'e-ra), H. pi. [NL., neut. pi. of 
setifcr: see getiferom."] A superfaraily of artio- 
dactyl ungulates, whose body is covered with 
stiff hairs or bristles ; the swine. They are unguli- 
grade and cloven-footed, with false hoofs not functional, 
ized. The snout is more or less discoidal, and the nostrils 
open forward in it. The mamma! are from four to ten, 
ventral as well as inguinal. The Selifem comprise the 
living families Phacoclioerids?, or wart-hogs; SiMse, or 
swine proper; Dicotylidai, or peccaries ; and probably the 
fossil Anthrocotheriidtf. Also Setigem. See cuts under 
babirussa, boar, peccary, Phacochaerus, and Potamachoerus. 
setiferous (se-tif 'e-rus), (i. [< NL. setifer, < L. 
seta, steta, bristle" + ferre = E. 6e'l.] Bris- 
tling; having bristles or bristly hairs; seta- 
ceous; specifically, of or pertaining to the Se- 
lifn-fi, as swine. Also setigerous. 
setiform (se'ti-form), (i. [< L. seta, sseta, a 
bristle, + forma, form.] Having the form of 
a seta; shaped like or resembling a bristle; se- 
taceous Setiform antennae, in entmn. : (a) Antennas 
having a short and thick basal joint, 'he rest of the organ 
being reduced to a bristle-like appendage, as in the 
dragon-flies. (6) Same as setaceous antennae (which see, 
under setaceous). Setiform palpi, palpi that are minute 
and bristle-shaped, as in the bedbug. 
setiger (se'ti-jer), n. [< L. setiger, ssetiger : see 
setigerous.^ A setigerous or chsetopodous worm; 
a member of the Setigera. 
Setigera (se-tij'e-ra), n. pi. [NL., neut. pi. of 
L. setiger, ssetiger, bristle-bearing : see setige- 
rous."] If. In Vermes, same as Chsetopoda. 2. 
In Illiger's classification (1811), a family of his 
Mitltungulata ; the swine or Setifera. 
setigerous (se-tij'e-rus), a. [< L. setiger, see- 
tiger, bristle-bearing, having coarse hair, < seta, 
sseta. a bristle, + gerere, bear.] Same as setif- 
erous. 
The head is bare of frontal horns, but carries a pair of 
Sftiijerous antennae. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., 598. 
set-in (set'in). ft. A beginning; a setting in. 
The early and almost immediate set-in of the drift. 
Virginia Car. N. Y. Tribune. (Bartlett.) 
setiparous (se-tip'a-rus), a. [< L. seta, sseta, a 
bristle, + pdrere, bear, bring forth.] Giving 
rise to setsB ; producing bristles : applied to cer- 
tain organs of annelids. 
The setiparous glands of the inner row of seta;. 
Molleston, Forms of Anim. Life, p. 125. 
setireme (se'ti-rem), w. [< L. seta, seeta, a 
bristle, a coarse stiff hair, + remus, an oar.] 
The fringed or setose leg of an aquatic insect, 
serving as an oar. 
setirostral (se-ti-ros'tral), a. [< L. seta, sseta, 
a bristle, + rostrum, 'bill.] Having the bill 
furnished with conspicuous bristles along the 
gape ; having long rictal vibrissse : opposed to 
glabrirostral. P. L. Sclater. 
Setirostres (se-ti-ros'trez), . pi. [NL.: see 
set i rostral."] In ontith., a division of Capri- 
mulginse, including those which are setiros- 
tral, as the true goatsuckers or night-jars : dis- 
tinguished from Gtabrirostres. See cuts under 
fissirostral and night-jar. P. L. Sclater. 
setlingt (set'ling), re. [Also, erroneously, set- 
tling; < sefi + -ling 1 .'] A sapling; a young set 
or shoot. 
For such as be yet inttrm and weak, and newly planted 
in the religion of Christ, and have taken no sure root in 
the same, are easily moved as young settings, and carried 
away. Beam, Early Works (Parker Soc.), p. 18. 
For settlings they are to be preferred that grow near- 
est the stock. Evelyn. 
setness't (set'nes), n. [< ME. setnesse, < AS. 
gesetnes, constitution, statute, appointed order 
(of. G. gesetz, a law, statute ; cf . also ME. aset- 
nesse, < AS. asetnis, institute), < settan, set: see 
sei 1 .] A law; statute. 
setness 2 (set'nes), . [< set, pp. of set 1 , + -ness."] 
The state or character of being set, in any sense. 
set-net (set'net), n. A net stretched on a coni- 
cal frame, which closes the outlet of a fishway, 
and into which fish may fall. 
set-Off (set'6f),n. ; pi. sets-off(setz'ot). 1. That 
which is set off against another thing; an off- 
set. 
An example or two of peace broken by the public voice 
is a poor set-off against the constant outrages upon hu- 
manity and habitual inroads upon the happiness of the 
country subject to an absolute monarch. Brougham. 
He pleaded his desertion of Pompey as a set-off against 
his faults. Froude, Csesar, p. 454. 
2. That which is used to improve the appear- 
ance of anything ; a decoration ; an ornament. 
This coarse creature, 
That has no more set-o/but his juggiings, 
His travell'd tricks. 
Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, iii. 1. 
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3. In arch., a connecting member interposed 
between a lighter and a more massive structure 
projecting beyond the former, as between a 
lower section of a wall or a buttress and a sec- 
tion of less thickness above ; also, that part of 
a wall, or the like, which is exposed horizon- 
tally when the part above it is reduced in thick- 
ness. Also called offset. 
The very massive lower buttress, c, is adjusted to the 
flying buttress, b, by a simple set-o/, d. 
C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 78. 
4. A counter-claim or -demand; a cross-debt; 
a counterbalancing claim. 
If the check is paid into a different bank, it will not be 
"presented for payment, but liquidated by set-of against 
other checks. J. S. Mill, Polit. Econ., III. xii. 6. 
5. In law: (a) The balancing or countervailing 
settee 
set-out (set/out), w. 1. Preparations, as for be- 
ginning a journey. 
A committee of ten, to make all the arrangements and 
manage the whole set-out. Dickens, Sketches, Tales, vii. 
2. Company; set; clique. [Rare.] 
She must just hate and detest the whole set-out of us. 
Dickens, Hard Times, i. 8. 
3. A display, as of plate, or china, or elabo- 
rate dishes and wines at table; dress and ac- 
cessories; equipage; turn-out. 
" When you are tired of eating strawberries in the gar- 
den, there shall be cold meat in the house." "Well, as 
you please; only don't have a great set-out." 
Jane Austen, Emma, xlii. 
His " drag " is whisked along rapidly by a brisk chestnut 
pony, well-harnessed ; the whole set-out, I was informed, 
pony included, cost 50 when new. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 48. 
is in privity. Set-off is that right which exists between a - t L _.._ /eer'niii'i 
two persons each of whom, under an independent con- Set-pin (set pin), . 
tract, owes an ascertained amount to the other, to set off set-pot (set'pot) 
A dowel 
A dowel. 
In varmsh-malang, a cop- 
tract, owes an ascertained amount to te oter, o se o - , . -, - 
their respective debts, by way of mutual deduction, so per pan heated by a pipe or flue wound spirally 
that the person to whom the larger debt is due shall re- a k O ut it : used to boil oil, gold-size, japans, etc. 
cover the residue only after such deduction. (Kerr.) Set- , jrainht 
cover te resue ony aer suc eucon. e. - , an 
of, counter-claim, and recoupment are terms often used in- * 5" '/SEj \ A -^ v, ti, Q 
discriminately. Counter-claim is more appropriate of any set-ring (set'nng), n. A guide above the main 
cross-demand on which the claimant might if he chose frame of a spoke-setting machine, on which the 
maintain an independent action, and on which, should gpo ]j eg are res ted to be set and driven into the 
he establish it as a cause of action, either in such mde- ?^ 
pendent action or by way of counter-claim when sued, he ' uo. ,.,,.., , , A 
would be entitled to an affirmative judgment in his own set-Screw (set'skro), n. (a) A screw, as m a 
favor for payment of the claim except so far as his adver- cramp, screwed through one part tightly upon 
sary's claim might reduce or extinguish it. This use of ano ther, to bring pieces of wood, metal, etc., 
the word distinguishes it from such claims as may be set f "^ "i" ' " " tfl ,?t P TjT A sorew ' sed to ' fix a 
into close contact. (D) A screw u, 
pulley, collar, or other detachable part to a 
sna ft or to some other part of a machine, by 
ngu 
off In favor of a person, which yet would not sustain an 
action by him, nor any affirmative judgment in his favor, 
Recoupment is appropriate only to designate a cross-de- 
iff' d ri ht to cut down the amount screwing through the detachable part and bear- 
reco 8 veSe b'yTirtue of tt Tn these, which are the strict ing against the part to which it is to be fas- 
senses of the words, a recoupment only reduces plain- tened. Such screws have usually pointed or 
tiff's demand, and leaves him to take judgment for what CU p-shaped ends, which bite into the metal, 
remains after the deduction; a set-o/ extinguishes the f^t^OMutA C^pt'stichtl a Stitched accord- 
srnaller of two independent demands and an equal amount Set-StltCnea (S sticny, a. , 
of the larger, but may leave the residue of the latter un- ing to a set pattern, bterne. 
enforced ; a cmmter-claim is one that may be established sett, . See set 1 , set 2 . 
irrespective of the adversary's success or failure in estab- 
lishing his claim, and, although subject to be reduced or 
extinguished by the adversary's success, may otherwise 
be enforced in the same action. 
6. In printing, same as offset, 9. Also setting off. 
Set-off Sheet, in printing, paper laid between newly 
printed sheets to' prevent the transfer or set-off of moist oott _, . . ltl j ,. 
ink ; the sheet of tissue-paper put before prints in books. * set, v. ami . 
(set'a-bl), a. [< sefl- + -able."] That 
set, iii any sense of the verb. 
They should only lay out set-table or tillable land, at 
least such of it as should butt on y water side. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 216. 
An obsolete form of seft. 
anel Mut UGIUIG piuiua 111 wvuno. j. S / j.-/\ rA 1 *-'^ .. 
OF seton, sedon, F. seton settee 1 se-te'), . [A fanciful variation per- 
) = It.^ c,<LL> Se to(-), haps orig. in trade use, of settl^ n (th sub- 
4H tlnnk stiff hair, also stitution of suffix -e&) : see Wfltol.] A seat or 
seton (se'tou), . 
(cf. Sp.sedal, aset< , 
< L. seta, sseta, a bristle, thick stiff hair, also 
iff 1 ailV- SPB o,;3 intht ~\ In turn (a) A bench of a particular form, (a) A sofa ; especially, 
(LL.) silk, see sail*, satin.) in surg. . i ij A & aofa Qf f iar pattern as a 8hort one to r two persons 
skein of silk or cotton, or similar material, on i y ( com pare te-<i-e), or one having two or three chair- 
passed under the true skin and the cellular tis- backs instead of a continuous back. 
Ingenious Fancy . . . devised 
The soft settee: one elbow at each end, 
And in the midst an elbow it received, 
United yet divided, twain at once. 
Cowper, Task, i. 75. 
There was a green settee, with three rockers beneath and 
an arm at each end. E. Egyleston, The Graysons, i. 
(b) A small part taken off from a long and large sofa by a 
sue beneath, in order to maintain an artificial 
issue. 
Seton (in Surgery! is when the Skin of the Neck, or other 
Part, is taken up and run thro' with a kind of Pack-Needle, 
and the Wound afterwards kept open with Bristles, or a 
Skeau of Thread, Silk, or Cotton, which is moved to and 
fro to discharge the ill Humours by Degrees. 
E. Phillips, 1706. 
(b) The issue itself. 
seton-needle (se'ton -ne"dl), n. In surg., a 
needle by which a seton is introduced beneath 
the skin. 
Setophaga (se-tof'a-gii), H. [NL.,<Gr.o-fc, later 
rniT6f , a moth,' + qdyelv, eat. ] The leading genus 
of Setophaginse. The bill is broad and flat, with long 
rictal bristles (as in the Old World Muscicapidse); the 
wings are pointed, not shorter than the rounded tail ; the 
slender tarsi are scutellate in front ; and the coloration is 
various, usually bright or strikingly contrasted. S. ruti- 
citta is the common redstart. S. picta and S. miniata are 
two painted fly-catching warblers, black, white, and car- sofa with tm> Settees, isth century, 
mine-red. Numerous others inhabit subtropical and trop- 
ical America. They are all small birds, about 5 inches kind of arm : thus, a long sofa may have a settee at each 
long, insectivorous, and with the habits and manners of end partly cut off from the body of the piece, 
flycatchers. See second cut under redstart. settee' 2 (se-te'), H. [Also setee, < P. scetie, setie, 
Setophaginse (se-tof-a-ji'ne), n. pi. [NL., < a ] so sc itie, setie, prob. < It. saettia, a light ves- 
Setophaga + -inse."] American fly-catching war- se i : 8ee satty."] A vessel with one deck and a 
biers, a subfamily of SylvicoUdse or Mniotiltidse, ver y long sharp prow, carrying two or three 
chiefly inhabiting the warmer parts of America, 
represented by several genera besides Seto- 
phaga, as Myiodioctes, Cardellina, Basileuterus, 
and about 40 species. 
setophagine (se-tof'a-jin), a. Pertaining to the 
Setophar/inse, or having their characters, 
setose (se'tos), a. [< L. setosus, ssetosus, abound- 
ing in bristles, < seta, sseta, a bristle, a coarse 
stiff hair: see seta."] 1. In l>ot., bristly; hav- 
ing the surface set with bristles: as, a setose 
leaf or receptacle. 2. In zool. and anat., 
bristling or bristly; setaceous; covered with 
set, or stiff hairs ; setous. See cut under Hy- 
iin ini/itera. 
setous (se'tus), a. [< L. setosus, sietosus: see 
setose."] Same as setose. [Bare.] 
