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pecified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13.

A kind of chisel or punch, variously shaped, with a broad flat end, used for stripping off rivet heads, etc.

In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface. Knight.

That which is set off against another thing; an offset. I do not contemplate such a heroine as a set-off to the many sins imputed to me as committed against woman. D. Jerrold.

Stitched according to a formal pattern. "An old set-stiched chair, valanced, and fringed with party-colored worsted bobs." Sterne.

A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Any slender, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.

Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail.

Offset, n., 4.

An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together. Craig.

The humbling of a person by act or words, especially by a retort or a reproof; the retort or the reproof which has such effect.

See 2d Settee.

obs. imp. pl. of Sit. Sat. Chaucer.

See Cetewale. [Obs.]

See Septfoil.

See Since. [Obs.]

See Sothic.

Producing, or having one or more, bristles.

Having the form or structure of setæ.

An annelid having setæ; a chætopod.