Emily Dickinson Lexicon

setting, verbal adj. [see set, v.] (webplay: birds, cloud, come, crown, day, ease, eternal, fool's, God, ground, horse, house, know, natural, pass, place, play, quiet, recollect, sea, school, stop, sun, sunset, task, town, truth, way, westward).

1. Descending; sinking; going down; appearing to move below the horizon; [fig.] declining, dying.
2. Diminishing; losing attention; passing out of recognition.