Setter

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.

(2): ( n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.

(3): ( 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.

(4): ( 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.

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

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

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

King James Dictionary [2]

Set'Ter, n.

1. One that sets as a setter on, or inciter a setter up a setter forth, &c. 2. A dogs that beats the field and starts birds for sportsmen. 3. A man that performs the office of a setting dogor finds persons to be plundered. 4. One that adapts words to music in composition. 5. Whatever sets off, adorns or recommendws. Not used.

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