a sin was. That I was cast; and even now he spake 57. To Set out. To mark by boundaries lago set him on. Sbakspeare. or distinctions of space. Shakspeare, Time and place, taken thus for determinate Baruch setteth thee on against us, to deliver us portions of those infinite abysses of space and duration, set out, or supposed to be distinguished, uinto the Chaldeans. Jeremiah. from the rest by known boundaries, have each Locke, employed by his own or the malice of other men to abuse the duke. Clarendon. 58. TO SET out. To adorn; to embellish. In opposition sits An ugly woman, in a rich habit set out with Grim death, my son and foe, who sets them on. jewels, nothing can become. Dryden. Milton. 59. TO SET 0:46. To raise ; to equip. The vengeance of God, and the indignation of The Venetians pretend they could set out, in men, will join forces against an insulting baseness, case of great necessity, thirty men of war, a when backed with greatness and set on by mise hundred gallies, and ten galeasses. Addison. information. South. 60. TO SET out. To show ; to display; only to give a greater edge to man's natural am to recommend. bition : what can this do but set men on the more Barbarossa, in his discourses concerning the eagerly to scramble? Locke. conquest of Africk, set him out as a most fit inA prince's court introduces a kind of luxury, strument for subduing the kindom Tunis, that sets every particular person wpon making a Knolles. higher figure than is consistent with his revenue. I could set out that best side of Luther, which Addison. our author, in the picture he has given us of him, has thrown into shade, that he mighe place 52. To Set on or upon. This sense may, a supposed deformity more in view. Atterbury, perhaps, be rather neutral. To attack; 61. TO SET out. To show; to prove. to assault. Those very reasons set out how heinous his There you missing me, I was taken up by Atterbury, pirates, who, putting me under board prisoner, 62. To Set up. To erect ; to establish presently set upon another ship, and, maintaining a long fight, in the end put them all to the sword. newly. Sidney, There are many excellent institutions of Cassio hath here been set on in the dark : charity lately set up, and which deserve all manHe's almost slain, and Roderigo dead, Shaksp. ner of encouragement, particularly those which So other foes may set upon our back. Sbaksp. relate to the careful and pious education of poor children. Alphonsus, captain of another of the gallies, Atterbury. suffering his men to straggle too far into the land, 63. To Set up. To enable to commence was set upon by a Turkish pirate, and taken. a new business. Knolles. Whocould not win the mistress, woo'd themaid, Of one hundred ships there came scarce thirty Set up themselves,and drove a sep'rate trade. Pope. to work: howbeit with them, and such as came 64. To Set up. To build ; to erect. daily in, we set upon them, and gave them the Their ancient habitations they neglect, chace. Bacon. And set up new; then, if the echo like not If I had been set upon by villains, I would have In such a room, they pluck down those. B. Jonson. redeemed that evil by this which I now suffer, Jacob took the stone that he had for his pillow, Taylor. and set it up for a piilar. Genesis. When once I am set upon, 't will be too late to Such delight hath God in men be whetting when I should be fighting. L'Estr. Obedient to his will, that he vouchsafes When some rival power invades a right, Among them to set up his tabernacle. Milton. Flies set on flies, and turtles turtles fight. Gartb. Images were not set up or worshipped among 53. TO SET on. To employ as in a task. the heathens, because they supposed the gods to Set on thy wife t'observer Shalspeare. be like them. Stilling fleet. Statues were set up to all those who had made 54. To Set on or upon. To fix the atten themselves eminent for any noble action. Dryden. tion; to determine to any thing with I shall shew you how to set up a forge, and settled and full resolution. what tools you must use. Moxon. It becomes a true lover to have your heart Patrons, who sneak from living worth to dead, more set upon her good than your own, and to Withhold the pension, and set up the head. Pope. bear a tenderer respect to her honour than your satisfaction. Sidney. 65. To Set up. To raise ; to exalt; to put in power. 55. To Set out.. To assign ; to allot. He was skilful enough to have lived still, if The rest, unable to serve any longer, or will knowledge could be set up against mortality. ing to fall to thrift, should be placed in part of Sbakspeare. the lands by them won, at better rate than I will translate the kingdom from the house of others to whom the same shall be set cut. Spens. Saul, and set up the throne of David over Israel. The squaring of a man's thoughts to the lot 2 Samuel that providence has set out for him is a blessing. Of those that lead these parties, if you could L'Estrange. take off the major number, the lesser would 56. To Set out. To publish. govern; nay, if you could take off all, they I will use no other authority than that excele would set up one, and follow him. Suckling lent proclamation set out by the king in the first Homer took all occasions of setting up his own year of his reign, and annexed before the book countrymen, the Grecians, and of undervaluing of Common Prayer. Bacon. the Trojan chiefs. Dryden. If all should be set out to the world by an 66. TO SET up. To establish; to appoint; angry whig, the consequence must be a confine- to fix. ment of our friend for some months more to his Whatever practical rule is generally broken, garret. Swift it cannot be supposed innate; is being im. H2 a a to him. possible that men should, without shame or fear, So let him land, serenely break a rule which they could not but And solemnly see him set on to London. Sbaks, evidently know that God had set up. Locke. On Wednesday next, Harry, thou shalt set 67. To Ser up. To place in view. forward; He hath taken me by my neck, shaken me to On Thursday we ourselves will march. Sbaksp. pieces, and set me up for his mark. Fob. The king is set from London, and the scene Scarecrows are set up to keep birds from corn Is now transported to Southampton. Sbakspeare. and fruit. Bacon. 7. To put one's self into any state or pos. Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, ture of removal. And shows thee in the fairest point of light, The faithless pirate soon will set to sea, To make thy virtues or thy faults conspicuous. And bear the royal virgin far away. Dryden. Addison. When sets he forward ? 68. To Set up. To place in repose ; to -He is near at hand. Dryden. fix; to rest. He, with forty of his gallies, in most warlike Whilst we set up our hopes here, we do not, so manner appointed, set forward with Solyman's ambassador towards Constantinople. Knolles. seriously as we ought, consider that God has provided another and better place for us. Wake. 8. To catch birds with a dog that sets 69. To Set up. To raise by the voice. them, that is, lies down and points My right eye itches, some good luck is near; them out; and with a large net. When I go a-hawking or setting, I think my. I'll set up such a note as she shall hear. Dryden. self beholden to him that assures me, that in such 70. To Set up. To advance; to propose a field there is a prey of partridges. buyle. to reception. 9. To plant, not'sow. Old Proverb 71. To Set up. To raise to a sufficient 10. It is commonly used in conversation fortune ; to set up a trade ; to set up a for sit, which, though undoubtedly bartrader. barous, is sometimes found in authors. In a soldier's life there's honour to be got ; and If they set down before's, 'fore they remove one lucky hit sets up a man for ever. L'Estrange. Bring up your army. Sbakspeare. 72. This is one of the words that can II. To apply one's self. If he sets industriously and sincerely to per. hardly be explained otherwise than by form the commands of Christ, he can have no various and multiplied exemplification. ground of doubting but it shall prove successful It is scarcely to be referred to any radical Hammond. or primitive notion ; it very frequently 12. To Set about. To fall to; to begin. includes the idea of a change made in We find it most hard to convince them, that the state of the subject, with some de- it is necessary now, at this very present, to set gree of continuance in the state super about it: we are thought a little too hot and induced. hasty, when we press wicked men to leave their To Set. v. n. sins to-day, as long as they have so much time before them to do it in. Calam 1. To fall below the horizon, as the sun How preposterous is it, never to set abo at evening. works of charity, whilst we ourselves can se The sun was set. Genesis. them performed? Atterbur Whereas the setting of the pleiades and seven 13. TO SET in. To become settled in stars is designed the term of autumn and the be particular state. ginning of winter, unto some latitudes these stars When the weather was set in to be very bad do never set. Brown. have taken a whole day's journey to see a galle That sun once set, a thousand meaner stars furnished by great masters. Addiso Give a dim light to violence and wars. Waller, As November set in with keen frosts, so th Now the latter watch of wasting night, continued through the whole of that mon And setting stars, to kindly rest invite. Dryden. without any other alteration than freezing w Not thicker billows beat the Lybian main, more or less severity, as the winds changed. When pale Orion sets in wintry rain, Than stand these troops. Dryden. A storin accordingly happened the followMy eyes no object met for a southern monsoon began to set ir But distant skies that in the ocean set. Dryden. Gulli The Julian eagles here their wings display, 14. To Set on or upon. To begin a mar And there like setting stars the Deci lay. Garth. journey, or enterprise. Be't your charge To see perform'd the tenor of our word: Sbakso He that would seriously set upon the sear 3. To be extinguished or darkened, as the truth, ought to prepare his mind with a lo sun at night. it. Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set, The understanding would presently obtai by reason of his age. 1 Kings. knowledge it is about, and then set upon 4. To fit musick to words. new inquiry. That I might sing it, madam, to a tune, 15. TO SET on. To make an attack. Give me a note : your ladyship can set. Hence every leader to his charge ; -As little by such toys as may be possible. Sbak. For on their answer we will set on them. S s. To become not fuid; to concrete. 16. To Set out. To have beginning. That fluid substance in a few minutes begins If any invisible casualty there be, it is to set, as the tradesmen speak; that is, to ex- tionable whether its activity only set out a change its fluidity for firmness. Boylo. nativity, and began not rather in the won 6. To begin a journey. day; Set on. 19. To Set out. To begin a journey, or not lax; made in consequence of some course. formal rule. At their setting out they must have their com Rude am I in my speech, mission from the king. Bacon. And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace. I shall put you in mind where you promised Shakspeare. to set out, or begin your first stage. Hammond, Th' indictment of the good lord Hastings Me thou think'st not slow, In a set hand fairly is ingross'd. Sbakspeare. Who since the morning-hour set out from heav'n, He would not perform that service by the Where God resides, and ere mid-day arriv'd hazard of one set battle, but by dallying off the In Eden. Milton. time. Knolles Dryden. Dryden. These doctrines, laid down for foundations of In ten set battles have we driv'n back any science, were called principles, as the be- These heathen Saxons, and regain'd our earth. ginnings from which we must set out, and look Dryden. no farther backwards. Locke. What we hear in conversation has this general He that sets out upon weak legs will not only advantage over set discourses, that in the latter go farther, but grow stronger too, than one who we are apt to attend more to the beauty and elewith firm limbs only sits still. Locke, gance of the composure than to the matter de- , For these reasons I shall set out for London livered. Rogers. to-morrow. Addison. Ser. n. s. [from the verb.] Look no more on man in the first stage of his 1. A number of things suited to each existence, in his setting out for eternity. Addison. The dazzling lustre to abate, other ; things considered as related to He set not out in all his pomp and state, each other; a number of things of which Clad in the mildest lighining. Addison. one cannot conveniently be separated If we slacken our arms, and drop our oars, we from the rest. shall be hurried back to the place from whence Sensations and passions seem to depend upon we first set out. Addison. a particular set of motions. Collier. 18. TO SET out. To begin the world. All corpuscles of the same set or kind agree He, at his first setting out, threw himself into in every thing. Woodward, court. Addison. ”T is not a set of features or complexion, Eugenio set out from the same university, and The tincture of a skin, that I admire. Addison. about the same time, with Corusodes. Swift. I shall here lay together a new set of remarks, 19. TO SET to. To apply himself to. and observe the artifices of our enemics to raise I may appeal to some, who have made this such prejudices. Addison. their business, whether it go not against the hair Homer introduced that monstrous character, with them to set to any thing else. to show the marvellous, and paint it in a new set Government of the Tongue. of colours. Broome. He must change his comrades; 20. To Set up. To begin a trade openly. In half the time he talks them round, We have stock enough to set up with, capable There must another set be found. Swift. of infinite advancement, and yet no less capable They refer to those criticks who are partial to of total decay. Decay of Piety. some particular set of writers to the prejudice of A man of a clear reputation, though his bark others. Pope. be split, yet he saves his cargo; has something Perhaps there is no man, nor set of men, upon left towards setting up again, and so is in capa- earth, whose sentiments i entirely follow. Watts. city of receiving benetit not only from his own 2. Any thing not sown, but put in a state industry, but the friendship of others. Government of the Tongue. of some growth into the ground. This habit of writing and discoursing was ac Tis rais’d by sets or berries, like white thorn, and lies the same time in the ground. Mortimer. quired during my apprenticeship in London, and a long residence there after I had set up for my- 3. The apparent fall of the sun, or other self. Swift. bodies of heaven, below the horizon. The weary sun hath made a golden set ; 21. To Set up. To begin a scheme of And, by the bright track of his tiery car, life. Eumenes, one of Alexander's captains, setting Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow.Shaksp. When the battle's lost and won. up for himself after the death of his master, per- -That will be ere set of sun. Shakspeare. suaded his principal officers to lend him great Before set of sun that day, I hope to reach my sums; after which they were forced to follow winter quarters. him for their own security; Arbuthnot. Atterbury to Pepe. A severe treatment might tempt them to set 4. A wager at dice. up for a republick. Addison. That was but civil war, an equal set, 22. TO SET up. To profess publickly. Where piles with piles, and eagles eagles fight. Dryden. Scow'ring the watch grows out-of-fashion wit; Now we set up for tilting in the pit. Have I not here the best cards for the game, Can Polyphemus, or Antiphates, Who gorge themselves with man, To win this easy match play'd for a crown? Set up to teach humanity, and give, And shall I now give o'er the yielded set? Shak. When we have match'd our rackets to these By their example, rules for us to live? Dryden. Those who have once made their court to balls, those mistresses without portions, the muses, are We will, in France, play a set never like to set up for fortunes. Pope. Shall strike his facher's crown into the hazard. It is found by experience, that those men who Slakspeare. set up for morality, without regard to religion, are Seta orous, adj. (seta, Latin. ) Bristly ; generally but virtuous in part. Swift. set with strong bairs ; consisting of SET.part. adj. [from the verb.) Regular; strong hairs. Dryden. 5. A game. manners. The parent insect, with its stiff setaceous tail, fore men will think they may be excused from lerebrates the rib of the leaf when tender, and settling the complex ideas of mixed modes so prémakes way for its egg into the very pith. Derbem, cisely in their minds. Locke. SE'T FOIL. n. s. (tormentilia, Latin.] An Medals give a very great light to history, in herb. confirming such passages as are true in old auSE'TON. n. s. [seton, French, from seta, thors, and settling such as are told after different Addison. Latin.] 6. To make certain or unchangeable. A seton is made when the skin is taken up with a needle, and the wound kept open by a His banish'd gods restor’d to rites divine, twist of silk or hair, that humours may vent And settled sure succession in his line. Dryden. themselves. Farriers call this operation in cattle This, by a settled habit in things whereof we have frequent experience, is performed so quick, rowelling. Quincy. that we take that for the perception of our senI made a seton to give a vent to the humour. sation which is an idea formed by our judgment. Wiseman. Locke, SETTE'E. N. 5. A large long seat with a If you will not take some care to settle our back to it. language, and put it into a state of continuance, SE'TTER. n. s. [from set.] your meinory shall not be preserved above an 1. One who sets. hundred years, further than by imperfect traWhen he was gone I cast this book away: I dition. Swift. could not look upon it but with weeping eyes, in 7. To fix; not to suffer to continue doubt. remembering him who was the only setter on to ful in opinion, or desultory and waverdo it. Ascbam. ing in conduct. Shameless Warwick, peace! A pamphlet that talks of slavery, France, and Proud sett. r up and puller down of kings! Shak. the pretender; they desire no more: it will He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful. gods. Acts. Swift. 2. A dog who beats the field, and points 8. To make close or compact. the bird for the sportsmen. Cover ani-hills up, that the rain may settle the 3. A man who performs the office of a turf before the spring. Mortimer. setting dog, or finds out persons to be 9. To fix un lienably by legal sanctions. plundered. I have given him the parsonage of the parish, Another set of men are the devil's setters, and, because I know his value, have settled upon who continually beat their brains how to draw him a good annuity for life. Spectator. in some innocent unguarded heir into their 10. To fix inseparably. hellish net, learning his humour, prying into his Exalt your passion by directing and settling it circumstances, and observing his weak side. upon an object, the due contemplation of whose Sonth. loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received GE'TTERWORT. n. S. An herb; a species from mortal beauty. Beyle. of hellebore. 11. To affect, so as that the dregs or imSETTING Dog. n. s. [rane sentacchione, purities sink to the bottom. Italian ; setting and dog.) A dog taught So do the winds and thunders cleanse the air; So working seas settle and purge the wine. to find game, and point it out to the Davies. sportsman. Will obliges young heirs with a setting dog he 12. To compose ; to put into a state of has made himself. calmness. Addison. SE’TTLE. n. s. [retol, Saxon.) A seat ; When thou art settling thyself to thy devo tions, imagine thou hearest thy Saviour calling a bench ; something to sit on. to thee, as he did to Martha, Why art thou so From the bottom to the lower settle shall be careful? Duppa. two cubits. Ezekiel. TO SETTLE. V. n. 1. To subside ; to sink to the bottom and Inviting each his weary limbs to rest. Dryden, repose there. TO SEʻTTLE. v. a. (from the noun.] That country became a gained ground by the mud brought down by the Nilus, which seitled 1. To place in any certain state after a by degrees into a firm land. Brown. time of Huctuation or disturbance. 2. To lose motion or fermentation ; to I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings. Ezek. deposit feces at the bottom. i In hope to find Your fury then boil'd upward to a foam; Better abode, and But, since this message came, you sink and settle, powers To settle here. As it cold water had been pour'd upon you. Milton. Dryden. %. To fix in any way of life. A government, upon such occasions, is always The father thought the time drew on thick before it settles. Addison. Of settling in the world his only son. Dryden. 3. To tx one's self, to establish a residence. 3. To fix in any place. The Spinetæ, descended from the Pelesgi, Settled in his face I see settled at the mouth of the river Po. Arbutbnot. Sad resolution. Milton, 4. To choose a method of life; to establish 4. To establish ; to confirm. a domestick state. Justice submitted to what Abra pleas'd : Her will alone could settle or revoke, As people marry now, and settle, Fierce love abates his usual metele; Prior. Prior. s. To determine ; to affirm; to free from 5. To become fixed so as not to change. ambiguity. The wind came about, and settled in the west, This exactness will be troublesome, and there- so as we could make no way. Bazen. my afflicted a Fair queen, 6. To quit an irregular and desultory for The sevenfold shield of Ajax cannot keep a methodical life. The battery from my heart. Sbakspears. Not for that silly old morality, 7. To take any lasting state. That as these links were knit,our loves should be, According to laws established by the divine wisdom, it was wrought by degrees from one Mourn I, that I thy sevenfold chain have lost, Nor for the luck's sake, but the bitter cost. form into another, till it settled at length into an Donne. habitable earth. Burnet. What if the breath that kindled- those grim Chyle, before it circulates with the blood, is fires, whitish : by the force of circulation it runs Awak’d, should blow them into sevenfold rage. through all the intermediate colours, till it seto Milton. tles in an intense red. Arbuthnot. 8. To rest ; to repose. Who sway'st the sceptre of the Pharian isle, When time hath worn out their natural vanity, And scu'nfold falls of disemboguing Nile. Dryd. and taught them discretion, their fondness settles on its proper object. Spectator. SE'VENFOLD. adv. In the proportion of Warm'd in the brain the brazen weapon lies, seven to one. And shades eternal settle o'er his eyes. Pope. Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be 9. To grow calm. taken on him sevenfold. Genesis. Till the fury of his highness settle, Wrath meet thy flight sev’nfold. Milton. Come not before him. Sbakspeare. SE'VENNIGHT. n. s. (seven and night.] 10. To make a jointure for a wife. 1. A week ; the time from one day of the He sighs with most success that settles well. week to the next day of the same deGarib. nomination preceding or following ; a 1. To contract. week, numbered according to the pracOne part being moist, and the other dry, occasions its settling more in one place than an tice of the old northern nations, as in other, which causcs cracks and settling's in the fortnight. wall. Mortimer. Rome was either more grateful to the beSE'TTLEDNESS. n. s. [from settle.] The holders, or more noble in itself, than justs with state of being settled ; confirmed state. the sword and lance, maintained for a sevennight What one party thought to rivet to a settled together. Sidney. ness by the strength and influence of the Scots, Iago's footing here that the other rejects and contemns. K. Cbarles. Anticipates our thoughts a se'nnight's speed. SETTLEMENT. n. s. [from settle.] Sbakspeare. Shining woods, laid in a dry room, within a 1. The act of settling; the state of being sevennigbe lost their shining. Bacon. settled. 2. We use still the word sevennight or 2. The act of giving possession by legal se'nnight in computing time: as, it hapsanction. pened on Monday was sevennight, that My docks, my fields, my woods, my pastures, is, on the Monday before last Monday ; it take, With settlement as good as law can make. Dryd. will be done on Monday sevennight, that is, on the Monday after next Monday. 3. A jointure granted to a wife. This comes from one of those untuckered laSirephon sigh'd so loud and strong, He blew a settlement along; dies, whom you were so sharp upon on Monday And bravely drove his rivais down was se'nnight. Addison. With coach and six, and house in town. Swift. SE'VENSCORE. adj. [seven and score.] 4. Subsidence ; dregs. Seven times twenty; an hundred and Fullers earth left a thick settlement. Mortimer, forty. 5. Act of quitting a roving for a domestick The old countess of Desmond, who lived till and methodical life. she was sevenscore years old, did dentize twice or Every man living has a design in his head upon thrice; casting her old teeth, and others coming in their place. Bacon. wealth, power, or settlement in the world. L'Estr. 6. A colony i a place where a colony is SE'VENTEEN.adj. [reofontyne, Saxon.] established. Seven and ten ; seven added to ten. SE'TWAL. N. s. [valeriana, Lat.] An berb. SEVENTEENTH. adj. [reopontzoða, Dict. Sax.] The seventh after the tenth; the ordinal of seventeen, SEVEN. adj. [reofon, Saxon.] In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, the 1. Four and three; one more than six. second month, the seventeenth day, were all the It is commonly used in poetry as one fountains of the great deep broken up. Genesis. syllable. The conquest of Ireland was perfected by the Let ev'ry man be master of his cime king in the seventeenth year of his reign. Till seven at night. Shakspeare. Yudge Hale. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee SE'VENTH. adj. [reofonda, Saxon.] by sevens. Genesis. 1. The ordinal of seven; the first after the Pharmis, king of the Medes, it is said, he sixth. overthrew and cruelly murdered, with his seven The child born in the seventh month doth comchildren. Raleigh. Seu'n bullocks, yet unyok'd, for Phæbus chuse; monly well. Bacon. And for Diana seu'n unspotted ewes. Dryden. Thy air is like the first : SE'VENFOLD. adj. (seven and fold.] Re A third is like the former: Filthy hags! Why do you shew me this? A fourth? Start, peated seven times; having seven doubles; increased seven times. What! will the line stretch to the crack of doom? • Upon this dreadful beast with sevenfold head Another yet? A seventh! I'll see no more. Shak. He set the false Duessa, for more awe and dread. So Pharaoh, or some greater king than be, Fuiry Queen. Provided for the seventh necessity : eye! |