Setter

['setə] or ['sɛtɚ]

Definition

(noun.) a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point.

Checker: Melanie--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.

(n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.

(n.) An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.

(n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.

(v. t.) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

Edited by Lenore

Definition

n. one who sets as music to words: a dog which crouches when it scents the game: one who finds out the victims for thieves.—Setter forth one who proclaims or promotes anything; Setter off one who decorates; Setter on an instigator; Setter out one who expounds; Setter up one who establishes.

v.t. (prov.) to cut an ox's dewlap and treat with a seton.—ns. Sett′ering the foregoing process; Sett′er-wort the fetid hellebore.

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