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setter

SET'TER, n.

1. One that sets; as a setter on, or inciter; a setter up; a setter forth, &c.

2. A dogs that beats the field and starts birds for sportsmen.

3. A man that performs the office of a setting dogor finds persons to be plundered.

4. One that adapts words to music in composition.

5. Whatever sets off, adorns or recommendws. [Not used.]



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SET'TER, n.

1. One that sets; as a setter on, or inciter; a setter up; a setter forth, &c.

2. A dogs that beats the field and starts birds for sportsmen.

3. A man that performs the office of a setting dogor finds persons to be plundered.

4. One that adapts words to music in composition.

5. Whatever sets off, adorns or recommendws. [Not used.]


SET'TER, n.

  1. One that sets; as, a setter on, or inciter; a setter up; a setter forth, &c.
  2. A dog that beats the field and starts birds for sportsmen.
  3. A man that performs the office of a setting dog, or finds persons to be plundered. South.
  4. One that adapts words to music in composition.
  5. Whatever sets off, adorns or recommends. [Not used.] – Whitlock.

Set"ter
  1. 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.
  2. To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

    [Prov. Eng.]
  3. 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.

    * There are several distinct varieties of setters; as, the Irish, or red, setter; the Gordon setter, which is usually red or tan varied with black; and the English setter, which is variously colored, but usually white and tawny red, with or without black.

  4. One who hunts victims for sharpers.

    Shak.
  5. One who adapts words to music in composition.
  6. An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.

    [Obs.]

    They come as . . . setters off of thy graces. Whitlock.

  7. A shallow seggar for porcelain.

    Ure.
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Setter

SET'TER, noun

1. One that sets; as a setter on, or inciter; a setter up; a setter forth, etc.

2. A dogs that beats the field and starts birds for sportsmen.

3. A man that performs the office of a setting dogor finds persons to be plundered.

4. One that adapts words to music in composition.

5. Whatever sets off, adorns or recommendws. [Not used.]

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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TUMULT'UARY, a. [L. tumultus.]

1. Disorderly; promiscuous; confused; as a tumultuary conflict.

2. Restless; agitated; unquiet.

Men who live without religion, live always in a tumultuary and restless state.

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