Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SET'TING, n.¹

1. The act of putting, placing, fixing or establishing.
2. The act of sinking below the horizon. The setting of stars is of three kinds, cosmical, acronical, and heliacal. [See these words.]
3. The act or manner of taking birds by a setting dog.
4. Inclosure; as, settings of stones. – Exod. xxviii.
5. The direction of a current at sea.