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- English Word Seton Definition 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.
- English Word Setose Definition Alt. of Setous
- English Word Setous Definition Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.
- English Word Setout Definition A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed.
- English Word Sett Definition See Set, n., 2 (e) and 3.
- English Word Settee Definition A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.
- English Word Settee Definition A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, -- used in the Mediterranean.
- English Word Setter Definition One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.
- English Word Setter Definition A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.
- English Word Setter Definition One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- English Word Setter Definition One who adapts words to music in composition.
- English Word Setter Definition An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.
- English Word Setter Definition A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- English Word Setter Definition To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
- English Word Setterwort Definition The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots.
- English Word Setting Definition The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
- English Word Setting Definition The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.
- English Word Setting Definition Something set in, or inserted.
- English Word Setting Definition That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.
- English Word Setting Definition of Set