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SET 
High on their heads, with jewels richly set, 
Each lady wore a radiant coronet. Dryden. 
To reduce from a fractured or dislocated state.—Can ho¬ 
nour set to a leg ? no: or an arm ? no: honour hath no 
skill in surgery then ? no. Shakspeare. —Credit is gained 
by course of time, and seldom recovers a strain; but if 
broken, is never well set again. Temple. —To fix the af¬ 
fection ; to determine the thoughts.— Set your affection on 
things above, not on things on the earth. Col. 
Some I found wonderous harsh, 
Contemptuous, proud, set on revenge and spite. Milton. 
Set not thy heart 
Thus overfond on that which is not thine. Milton. 
Men take an ill-natured pleasure in disappointing us in 
what our hearts are most set upon. Addison. —To prede¬ 
termine; to settle.—He remembers only the name of Conon, 
and forgets the other on set purpose, to shew his country 
swain was no great scholar. Dryclen. —To establish; to ap¬ 
point ; to fix.—For using set and prescribed forms, there is no 
doubt but that wholesome w'ords, being known, are aptest to 
excite judicious and fervent affections. Jeon Basilike. 
Though set form of prayer be an abomination, 
Set forms of petitions find great approbation. Denham. 
To appoint to an office; to assign to a post.—Am I a sea, 
or a whale, that thou settest. a watch over me ? Job. —To 
exhibit; to display ; with before. —Through the variety of 
my reading, I set before me many examples both of ancient 
and later times. Bacon. 
A spacious veil from his broad shoulders flew, 
That set the unhappy Phaeton to view: 
The flaming chariot and the steeds it shew’d, 
And the whole fable in the mantle glow’d. Addison. 
To propose to choice.—All that can be done is to set the 
thing before men, and to offer it to their choice. Tillotson. 
—To value; to estimate; to rate.—The backwardness 
parents shew in divulging their faults, will make them set a 
greater value on their credit themselves, and teach them to be 
the more careful to preserve the good opinion of others. 
Locke. —If we act by several broken views, and will not 
only be virtuous, but wealthy, popular, and every thing that 
has a value set upon it by the world, we shall live and die in 
misery. Addison. 
Though the same sun, with all diffusive rays, 
Blush in the rose and in the diamond blaze, 
We prize the stronger effort of his pow’r, 
And always set the gem above the flow’r. Pope. 
To stake at play. 
What sad disorders play begets! 
Desperate and mad, at length he sets 
Those darts, whose points make gods adore. Prior. 
To offer a wager at dice to another.—Who sets me else ? 
I’ll throw at all. Shakspeare. —To fix in metal.—He may 
learn to cut, polish, and set precious stones. Locke. —To 
embarrass; to distress; to perplex.—Those who raise 
popular murmurs and discontents against his majesty’s 
government, that they find so very few and so very improper 
occasions for them, shewing how hard they are set in this 
particular, represent the bill as a grievance. Addison. —To 
fix in an artificial manner, so as to produce a particular effect. 
—The proud have laid a snare for me, they have set gins. 
Psalms —To apply to something, as a thing to be done.— 
Unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury, that the 
Lord may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to. 
Deuteronomy. 
With whate’er gall thou set'st thyself to write, 
Thy inoffensive satires never bite. Dry den. 
To let; to grantto a tenant.—They care not how high they 
sell any of their commodities, at how unreasonable rates they 
set their grounds. Bp. Hall. —To place in order; to frame. 
—After it was framed, and ready to be set together, he was, 
with infinite labour and charge, carried by land with camels, 
through that hot and sandy country. Knolles. —To station; 
to place. 
Coenus has betray’d 
The bitter truths that our loose court upbraid : 
Your friend was set upon you for a spy. 
And on his witness you are doom’d to die. Dryden. 
To oppose.—Will you set your wit to a fool’s? Shak¬ 
speare. —To bring to a fine edge: as, to set a razor.—To 
point out, without noise or disturbance: as, a dog sets 
birds. 
To Set about. To apply to.—They should make them 
play-games, or endeavour it, and set themselves about it. 
Locke. 
To Set against. To place in a state of enmity or 
opposition.—The king of Babylon set himself against 
Jerusalem. Ezekiel. —The devil hath reason to set himself 
against it; for nothing is more destructive to him than a 
soul armed with prayer. Duppa. 
To Set against. To oppose; to place in rhetorical 
opposition.—This perishing of the world in a deluge is set 
against, or compared with, the perishing of the world in the 
conflagration. Burnet. 
To Set apart. To neglect for a season.—They highly 
commended his forwardness, and all other matters for that 
time set apart. Knolles. 
To Set aside. To omit for the present.— Set your 
knighthood and your soldiership aside, and give me leave to 
tell you that you lie in your throat. Shakspeare. —In 1585 
followed the prosperous expedition of Drake and Carlile; 
in the which I set aside tire taking of St. Jago and St. 
Domingo, as surprizes rather than encounters. Bacon .— My 
highest interest is not to be deceived about these matters; 
therefore, setting aside all other considerations, I will 
endeavour to know the truth, and yield to that. Tillotson. 
To Set aside. To reject.—-I’ll look into the pretensions 
of each, and shew upon what ground ’tis that I embrace that 
of the deluge, and set aside all the rest. Woodward. 
To Set aside. To abrogate ; to annul. — Several in¬ 
novations made to the detriment of the English merchant, 
are now entirely set aside. Addison. 
To Set by. To regard; to esteem. Unused. —David 
behaved himself more wisely than all,- so that his name was 
much set by. 1 Sam. 
To Set by. To reject or omit for the present. — You shall 
hardly edify me, that those nations might not, by the law of 
nature, have been subdued by any nation that had only 
policy and moral virtue; though the propagation of the 
faith, whereof we shall speak in the proper place, were set 
by, and not made part of the case. Bacon. 
To Set down. To explain ; or relate in writing.—-They 
have set down, that a rose set by garlick is sweeter, because 
the more fetid juice goeth into the garlick. Bacon. 
To Set down. To register or note in any book or paper; 
to put in waiting.—I cannot forbear setting down the 
beautiful description Claudian has made of a wild beast, 
newly brought from the woods, and making its first appear¬ 
ance in a lull amphitheatre. Addison. 
To Set down. To fix on a resolve. — Finding him so 
resolutely set down, that he was neither by fair nor foul 
means, but only by force, to be removed out of his town, he 
inclosed the same round. Knolles. 
To Set down. To fix; to establish.—This law we may 
name eternal, being that order which God before all others 
hath set down with himself, for himself to do all things by. 
Hooker. 
T<> Set forth. To publish ; to promulgate ; to make 
appear. 
My willing love, 
The rather by these arguments of fear. 
Set forth in your pursuit. Shakspeare. 
The poems, which have been so ill set forth under his 
name, are as he first writ them. Waller. 
To Set forth. To raise ; to send out on expeditions.— 
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