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•Oar merchants, to their great charges, set forth fleets to 
descry the seas. Abbot. 
To Set forth. To display ; to explain ; to represent..— 
So little have these false colours dishonoured painting, that 
they have only served to set forth her praise, and to make 
her merit further known. Dry den. 
To Set forth. To arrange ; to place in order. 
Up higher to the plain, where we’ll set forth 
In best appointment all our regiments. Shakspeare. 
To Set forth. To show ; to exhibit. 
When poor Rutilus spends all his worth. 
In hopes of setting one good dinner forth, 
’Tis downright madness. Dri/den. 
To Set forward. To advance; to promote.—They yield 
that reading may set forward, but not begin the jvork of 
salvation. Hooker. —Amongst them there are not those 
helps which others have to set them forward in the way of 
life. Hooker. 
To Set in. To put in a way to begin.—If you please 
to assist and set me in, I will recollect myself. Collier. 
To Set off. To decorate; to recommend by contrast; 
to adorn ; to embellish. 
Like bright metal on a sullen ground. 
My reformation, glittering o’er my fault. 
Shall shew more goodly, and attract more eyes, 
Than that which hath no foil to set it off. Shakspeare. 
The prince put thee into my service for no other reason 
than to set me off. Shakspeare. 
To Set on or upon. To animate; to instigate ; to incite. 
He upbraids Iago, that he made him 
Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came 
That I was cast; and even now he spake 
Iago set him on. Shakspeare. 
The skill used in dressing up power, will serve only to 
give a greater edge to man's natural ambition: what can this 
do but set men on the more eagerly to scramble. Locke. 
To Set on or upon. This sense may, perhaps, be rather 
neutral. To attack ; to assault.—There you missing me, I 
was taken up by the pirates, who putting me under board 
prisoner, presently set upon another ship, and maintaining 
a long fight, in the end put them all to the sword. Sidney. 
—Of one hundred ships there came scarce thirty to work: 
howbeit with them, and such as came daily in, we set upon 
them, and gave them the chace. Bacon. 
To Set on. To employ as in a task. —Set on thy wife to 
observe. Shakspeare. 
To Set on or upon. To fix the attention; to determine 
to any thing with settled resolution.—It becomes a true lover 
to have your heart more set upon her good than your own, 
and to bear a tenderer respect to her honour than your satis¬ 
faction. Sidney. 
To Set out. To assign ; to allot.—The rest, unable to 
serve any longer, or willing to fall to thrift, should be placed 
in part of the lands by them won, at better rate than others, 
to whom the same shall be set out. Spenser. 
To Set out. To mark by boundaries or distinctions of 
space.—Time and place, taken thus for determinate portions 
of those infinite abysses of space and duration, set out, or 
supposed to be distinguished from the rest by known boun¬ 
daries, have each a twofold acceptation. Locke. 
To Set out. To adorn; to embellish.—An ugly woman, 
in a rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can become. 
Dryden. 
To Set out. To raise ; to equip.—The Venetians pre¬ 
tend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men 
of war, a hundred gallies, and ten galeasses. Addison. 
To Set out. To show; to display; to recommend.-— 
Barbarossa, in his discourses concerning the conquest of 
Africk, set him out as a most fit instrument for subduing the 
kingdom of Tunis. Knolles. 
To Set out. To show ; to prove.—Those very reasons 
set out how heinous his sin was. Atterbury. 
Vox,. XXIII. No. 1555. 
To Set up. To erect; to establish newly.—There are 
many excellent institutions of charity lately set up, and 
which deserve all manner of encouragement, particularly 
those which relate to the careful and pious education of poor 
children. Atterbury. 
To Set up. To enable to commence a new business. 
Who could not win the mistress woo’d the maid, 
Set up themselves, and drove a separate trade. Pope. 
To Set up. To build; to erect. 
Their ancient habitations they neglect. 
And set up new : then, if the echo like not, 
In such a room they pluck down those. B. Jonson. 
To Set up. To raise ; to exalt; to put in power.—He 
was skillful enough to have lived still, if knowledge could be 
set up against mortality. Shakspeare. —Homer took all 
occasions of setting up his own countrymen the Grecians, 
and of undervaluing the Trojan chiefs. Dryden. 
To Set up. To establish ; to appoint; to fix.—What¬ 
ever practical rule is generally broken, it cannot be sup¬ 
posed innate; it being impossible that men should, without 
shame or fear, serenely break a rule which they could not but 
evidently know that God had set up. Locke. 
To Set up. To place in view.—He hath taken me by 
my neck, shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. 
Job. —Scarecrows are set up to keep birds from corn and 
fruit. Bacon. 
Thy father’s merit sets thee up to view, 
And shows thee in the fairest point of light. 
To make thy virtues or thy faults conspicuous. Addison. 
To Set up. To place in repose ; to fix; to rest.—Whilst 
we set up our hopes here, we do not so seriously, as we 
ought, consider that God has provided another and better 
place for us. Wake. 
To Set up. To raise by the voice. 
My right eye itches, some good luck is near; 
Perhaps my Amaryllis may appear; 
I’ll set up such a note as she shall hear. Dryden. 
To Set up. To advance ; to propose to reception.—The 
authors that set up this opinion were not themselves satisfied 
with it. Burnet. 
To Set up. To raise a sufficient fortune; to set up a 
trade; to set up a trader.—In a soldier’s life there’s ho¬ 
nour to be got, and one^lucky hit sets up a man for ever. 
L'Estrange. 
To SET, v. n. To fall below the horizon, as the sun at 
evening. 
That sun once set, a thousand meaner stars 
Gave a dim light to violence and wars. Waller. 
A gathering and serring of the spirits together to resist* 
maketh the teeth to set hard one against another. Bacon• 
—Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set, by reason of 
his age. Kings. —To fit music to words. 
That I might sing it, madam, to a tune. 
Give me a note: your ladyship can set. — 
—As little by such toys as may be possible. Shakspeare. 
To become not fluid ; to concrete.—That fluid substance 
in a few minutes begins to set, as the tradesmen speak; that 
is, to exchange its fluidity, for firmness. Boyle. —To begin 
a journey. 
So let him land, 
And solemnly see him set on to London. Shakspeare. 
On Wednesday next, Harry, thou slialt set forward, 
On Thursday we ourselves will march. Shakspeare. 
To put one’s self into any state or posture of removal.— 
He, with forty of his gallies, in most warlike manner ap¬ 
pointed, set forward with Solyman’s ambassador towards 
Constantinople. Knolles —To catch birds with a dog that 
sets them; that is, lies down and points them out; and with 
a large net.—When I go a hawking or setting, I think my¬ 
self beholden to him that assures me, that in such a field 
there is a covey of partridges. Boyle —To plant, not sow 
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