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      (a) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare;
          as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.

                Tables for to sette, and beddes make. --Chaucer.
      (b) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to
          set the sails of a ship.
      (c) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the
          keynote; as, to set a psalm. --Fielding.
      (d) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to
          replace; as, to set a broken bone.
      (e) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a
          watch or a clock.
      (f) (Masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the
          blocks of cut stone in a structure.

   6. To stake at play; to wager; to risk.

            I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the
            hazard of the die.                    --Shak.

   7. To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare
      for singing.

            Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
                                                  --Dryden.

   8. To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a
      time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.

   9. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to
      variegate with objects placed here and there.

            High on their heads, with jewels richly set, Each
            lady wore a radiant coronet.          --Dryden.

            Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms.
                                                  --Wordsworth.

   10. To value; to rate; -- with at.

             Be you contented, wearing now the garland, To have
             a son set your decrees at naught.    --Shak.

             I do not set my life at a pin's fee. --Shak.

   11. To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other
       game; -- said of hunting dogs.

   12. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to
       assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be
       learned.

   13. To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill. [Scot.]

   14. (Print.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.;
       as, to set type; to set a page.

   {To set abroach}. See {Abroach}. [Obs.] --Shak.

   {To set against}, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to
      oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one
      thing against another.

   {To set agoing}, to cause to move.

   {To set apart}, to separate to a particular use; to separate
      from the rest; to reserve.

   {To set a saw}, to bend each tooth a little, every alternate
      one being bent to one side, and the intermediate ones to
      the other side, so that the opening made by the saw may be
      a little wider than the thickness of the back, to prevent
      the saw from sticking.

   {To set aside}.
       (a) To leave out of account; to pass by; to omit; to
           neglect; to reject; to annul.

                 Setting aside all other considerations, I will
                 endeavor to know the truth, and yield to that.
                                                  --Tillotson.
       (b) To set apart; to reserve; as, to set aside part of
           one's income.
       (c) (Law) See under {Aside}.

   {To set at defiance}, to defy.

   {To set at ease}, to quiet; to tranquilize; as, to set the
      heart at ease.

   {To set at naught}, to undervalue; to contemn; to despise.
      ``Ye have set at naught all my counsel.'' --Prov. i. 25.
      

   {To set a} {trap, snare, or gin}, to put it in a proper
      condition or position to catch prey; hence, to lay a plan
      to deceive and draw another into one's power.

   {To set at work}, or {To set to work}.
       (a) To cause to enter on work or action, or to direct how
           tu enter on work.
       (b) To apply one's self; -- used reflexively.

   {To set before}.
       (a) To bring out to view before; to exhibit.
       (b) To propose for choice to; to offer to.

   {To set by}.
       (a) To set apart or on one side; to reject.
       (b) To attach the value of (anything) to. ``I set not a
           straw by thy dreamings.'' --Chaucer.

   {To set by the compass}, to observe and note the bearing or
      situation of by the compass.

   {To set case}, to suppose; to assume. Cf. {Put case}, under
      {Put}, v. t. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   {To set down}.
       (a) To enter in writing; to register.

                 Some rules were to be set down for the
                 government of the army.          --Clarendon.
       (b) To fix; to establish; to ordain.

                 This law we may name eternal, being that order
                 which God . . . hath set down with himself, for
                 himself to do all things by.     --Hooker.
       (c) To humiliate.

   {To set eyes on}, to see; to behold; to fasten the eyes on.
      

   {To set fire to}, or {To set on fire}, to communicate fire
      to; fig., to inflame; to enkindle the passions of; to
      irritate.

   {To set flying} (Naut.), to hook to halyards, sheets, etc.,
      instead of extending with rings or the like on a stay; --
      said of a sail.

   {To set forth}.
       (a) To manifest; to offer or present to view; to exhibt;
           to display.
       (b) To publish; to promulgate; to make appear. --Waller.
       (c) To send out; to prepare and send. [Obs.]

                 The Venetian admiral had a fleet of sixty
                 galleys, set forth by the Venetians. --Knolles.

   {To set forward}.
       (a) To cause to advance.
       (b) To promote.

   {To set free}, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or
      bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

   {To set in}, to put in the way; to begin; to give a start to.
      [Obs.]

            If you please to assist and set me in, I will
            recollect myself.                     --Collier.

   {To set in order}, to adjust or arrange; to reduce to method.
      ``The rest will I set in order when I come.'' --1 Cor. xi.
      34.

   {To set milk}.
       (a) To expose it in open dishes in order that the cream
           may rise to the surface.
       (b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of
           rennet. See 4
       (e) .

   {To set} {much, or little}, {by}, to care much, or little,
      for.

   {To set of}, to value; to set by. [Obs.] ``I set not an haw
      of his proverbs.'' --Chaucer.

   {To set off}.
       (a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a particular
           purpose; to portion off; as, to set off a portion of
           an estate.
       (b) To adorn; to decorate; to embellish.

                 They . . . set off the worst faces with the
                 best airs.                       --Addison.
       (c) To give a flattering description of.

   {To set off against}, to place against as an equivalent; as,
      to set off one man's services against another's.

   {To set} {on or upon}.
       (a) To incite; to instigate. ``Thou, traitor, hast set on
           thy wife to this.'' --Shak.
       (b) To employ, as in a task. `` Set on thy wife to
           observe.'' --Shak.
       (c) To fix upon; to attach strongly to; as, to set one's
           heart or affections on some object. See definition 2,
           above.

   {To set one's cap for}. See under {Cap}, n.

   {To set one's self against}, to place one's self in a state
      of enmity or opposition to.

   {To set one's teeth}, to press them together tightly.

   {To set on foot}, to set going; to put in motion; to start.
      

   {To set out}.
       (a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to
           set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an
           estate; to set out the widow's thirds.
       (b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.]
       (c) To adorn; to embellish.

                 An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with
                 jewels, nothing can become.      --Dryden.
       (d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. [R.]

                 The Venetians pretend they could set out, in
                 case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war.
                                                  --Addison.
       (e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.

                 I could set out that best side of Luther.
                                                  --Atterbury.
       (f) To show; to prove. [R.] ``Those very reasons set out
           how heinous his sin was.'' --Atterbury.
       (g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.

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      (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite
          at a regulated height. --Simmonds.

   {Fire bar}, a grate bar.

   {Fire basket}, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight.

   {Fire beetle}. (Zo["o]l.) See in the Vocabulary.

   {Fire blast}, a disease of plants which causes them to appear
      as if burnt by fire.

   {Fire box}, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for
      the fire.

   {Fire brick}, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining
      intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or
      of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and
      used for lining fire boxes, etc.

   {Fire brigade}, an organized body of men for extinguished
      fires.

   {Fire bucket}. See under {Bucket}.

   {Fire bug}, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through
      mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac.
      [U.S.]

   {Fire clay}. See under {Clay}.

   {Fire company}, a company of men managing an engine in
      extinguishing fires.

   {Fire cross}. See {Fiery cross}. [Obs.] --Milton.

   {Fire damp}. See under {Damp}.

   {Fire dog}. See {Firedog}, in the Vocabulary.

   {Fire drill}.
      (a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for
          practice.
      (b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by
          rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; --
          used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by
          many savage peoples.

   {Fire eater}.
      (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire.
      (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur.
          [Colloq.]

   {Fire engine}, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels,
      for throwing water to extinguish fire.

   {Fire escape}, a contrivance for facilitating escape from
      burning buildings.

   {Fire gilding} (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam
      of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off
      afterward by heat.

   {Fire gilt} (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire
      gilding.

   {Fire insurance}, the act or system of insuring against fire;
      also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes,
      in consideration of the payment of a premium or small
      percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an
      owner of property from loss by fire during a specified
      period.

   {Fire irons}, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs,
      poker, and shovel.

   {Fire main}, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out
      fire.

   {Fire master}
      (Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the
            composition of fireworks.

   {Fire office}, an office at which to effect insurance against
      fire.

   {Fire opal}, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections.
      

   {Fire ordeal}, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test
      was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon
      red-hot irons. --Abbot.

   {Fire pan}, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially
      the receptacle for the priming of a gun.

   {Fire plug}, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the
      main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing
      fires.

   {Fire policy}, the writing or instrument expressing the
      contract of insurance against loss by fire.

   {Fire pot}.
      (a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles,
          formerly used as a missile in war.
      (b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a
          furnace.
      (c) A crucible.
      (d) A solderer's furnace.

   {Fire raft}, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting
      fire to an enemy's ships.

   {Fire roll}, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to
      their quarters in case of fire.

   {Fire setting} (Mining), the process of softening or cracking
      the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by
      exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally
      superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond.

   {Fire ship}, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting
      fire to an enemy's ships.

   {Fire shovel}, a shovel for taking up coals of fire.

   {Fire stink}, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites,
      caused by the formation of sulphureted hydrogen.
      --Raymond.

   {Fire surface}, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are
      exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of
      combustion; heating surface.

   {Fire swab}, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun
      in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc.
      --Farrow.

   {Fire teaser}, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine.

   {Fire water}, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American
      Indians.

   {Fire worship}, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly
      in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called
      Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India.

   {Greek fire}. See under {Greek}.

   {On fire}, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager;
      zealous.

   {Running fire}, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession
      by a line of troops.

   {St. Anthony's fire}, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which
      St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn.

   {St. Elmo's fire}. See under {Saint Elmo}.

   {To set on fire}, to inflame; to kindle.

   {To take fire}, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion.