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Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setæ; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle.

See Shittim.

Producing setæ; -- said of the organs from which the setæ of annelids arise.

A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.

The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy. "The starched setness of a sententious writer." R. Masters.

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.

Thickly set with bristles or bristly hairs.

A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed. [Coloq.] Dickens.

See Set, n., 2 (e) and 3.

arrying two or three masts with lateen sails, -- used in the Mediterranean. [Written also setee.]

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.

The bear's-foot (Helleborus foetidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior.

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.

Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs.

A seat of any kind. [Obs.] "Upon the settle of his majesty" Hampole.

The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state. [R.] Bp. Hall.

The act of setting, or the state of being settled. Specifically: - -

One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.

The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.

A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta.