[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

set \set\ se^t, v. i.
   1. to pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink
      out of sight; to come to an end.
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            ere the weary sun set in the west.    --shak.
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            thus this century sets with little mirth, and the
            next is likely to arise with more mourning.
                                                  --fuller.
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   2. to fit music to words. obs. --shak.
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   3. to place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant. "to sow
      dry, and set wet." --old proverb.
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   4. to be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to
      germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has
      set well i. e., not blasted in the blossom.
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   5. to become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
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            a gathering and serring of the spirits together to
            resist, maketh the teeth to set hard one against
            another.                              --bacon.
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   6. to congeal; to concrete; to solidify; -- of cements,
      glues, gels, concrete, substances polymerizing into
      plastics, etc.
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            that fluid substance in a few minutes begins to set.
                                                  --boyle.
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   7. to have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move
      on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide
      sets to the windward.
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   8. to begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now
      followed by out.
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            the king is set from london.          --shak.
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   9. to indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as,
      the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a
      setter.
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   10. to apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now
       followed by out.
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             if he sets industriously and sincerely to perform
             the commands of christ, he can have no ground of
             doubting but it shall prove successful to him.
                                                  --hammond.
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   11. to fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.

   note: colloquially used, but improperly, for sit.
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   note: the use of the verb set for sit in such expressions as,
         the hen is setting on thirteen eggs; a setting hen,
         etc., although colloquially common, and sometimes
         tolerated in serious writing, is not to be approved.
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   to set about, to commence; to begin.

   to set forward, to move or march; to begin to march; to
      advance.

   to set forth, to begin a journey.

   to set in.
       a to begin; to enter upon a particular state; as,
           winter set in early.
       b to settle one's self; to become established. "when
           the weather was set in to be very bad." --addison.
       c to flow toward the shore; -- said of the tide.

   to set off.
       a to enter upon a journey; to start.
       b typog. to deface or soil the next sheet; -- said of
           the ink on a freshly printed sheet, when another
           sheet comes in contact with it before it has had time
           to dry.

   to set on or to set upon.
       a to begin, as a journey or enterprise; to set about.
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                 he that would seriously set upon the search of
                 truth.                           --locke.
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       b to assault; to make an attack. --bacon.
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                 cassio hath here been set on in the dark.
                                                  --shak.
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   to set out, to begin a journey or course; as, to set out
      for london, or from london; to set out in business;to set
      out in life or the world.

   to set to, to apply one's self to.

   to set up.
       a to begin business or a scheme of life; as, to set up
           in trade; to set up for one's self.
       b to profess openly; to make pretensions.
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                 those men who set up for mortality without
                 regard to religion, are generally but virtuous
                 in part.                         --swift.
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see also:
to set about to set forward to set forth to set in to set off to set on 
to set upon to set out to set to to set up 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

about \about"\, adv.
   1. on all sides; around.
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            'tis time to look about.              --shak.
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   2. in circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the
      outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
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   3. here and there; around; in one place and another.
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            wandering about from house to house.  --1 tim. v.
                                                  13.
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   4. nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in
      quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as
      high; -- also of quantity, number, time. "there fell . . .
      about three thousand men." --exod. xxii. 28.
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   5. to a reserved position; half round; in the opposite
      direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to
      turn one's self about.
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   to bring about, to cause to take place; to accomplish.

   to come about, to occur; to take place. see under come.
      

   to go about, to set about, to undertake; to arrange; to
      prepare. "shall we set about some revels?" --shak.

   round about, in every direction around.
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see also:
to bring about to come about come to go about to set about round about 

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