Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Set (-s, -test, -ting)
set (-s, -test, -ting), v. [OE 'to sit'.] (webplay: about, above, action, adjust, adorn, behold, below, best, birds, book, cease, come, compass, darken, day, deceive, despise, diamond, discourse, distances, distinctions, down, duty, ease, east, equal, erect, estate, eternal, eyes, faces, fall, farm, father, features, feet, fine, fire, firmament, fit, floor, found, free, fully, gentleman, God, ground, growth, heads, heart, hill, hour, house, infinite, inspector, institute, irritate, judgment, know, lay, liberate, life, looking, lover, man, natural, noise, north, object, observe, offer, order, own, painful, pass, place, plant, power, price, prove, quiet, recollect, regard, rest, rule, school, sea, search, seat, see, separate, ship, side, situation, shelf, space, standing, stars, state, stop, street, sun, table, team, time, town, tree, truth, value, way, westward, Winter, words, work, world, worst).
- Step; dance; [word play] fit to music; adapt with notes.
- Display; array; arrange; [phrase “set the fashion”] establish as a trend.
- Make; cause to become.
- Congeal; become fixed.
- Decline; appear to be going down on the horizon; sit lower on the horizon at end of day.
- Put; place; pose; position; send; arrange; appoint; order; [fig.] cause; allow to happen.
- Exhibit; present; stage; lay out for viewing.
- Determine; define.
- Give; pose; present with.
- Regress; retrogress; begin to move away.
- Rest; fix; remain; stay permanently.
- Land; approach the earth; [fig.] crash; fall; [antonym “set off”] rise; take off.
- Mark; etch; delineate.
- Decline; pass below the horizon; [fig.] die; come to an end.
- Mold; shape; form; [fig.] make manifest; cause to be visible.
- Consider; name; perceive; regard; identify; recognize.
- Locate; situate.
- Finish; end.
- Furnish with dishes and other utensils for dining.
- Plant; cause to stand.
- Phrase. “set … at liberty”: liberate; emancipate; [fig.] dismiss; release; enable to leave.
- Phrase. “set … away”: save; reserve; put by; store out of sight for future use.
- Phrase. “Set separate”: take away; move apart; [fig.] take by death; place in the grave; lay in the tomb; fix in the ground.
- Phrase. “set … up”: erect; adjust; ground; cause to stand; place on a firm foundation.
- Phrase. “arise and set”: ascend and descend; go up and go down; [fig.] come and go repeatedly; appear and pass away continuously.
- Phrase. “set down”: station; post; put in place.
- Phrase. “set … in”: restore; return to proper place; return from a fractured state.
- Phrase. “set … down”: stop; settle; arrive.
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