setting dog

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setting dog - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Setting \Set"ting\, n.
     1. The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting
        of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting
        (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set)
        of a current.
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     2. The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does;
        also, hunting with a setter. --Boyle.
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     3. Something set in, or inserted.
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              Thou shalt set in it settings of stones. --Ex.
                                                    xxviii. 17.
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     4. That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold
        setting of a jeweled pin.
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     5. the time, place, and circumstances in which an event (real
        or fictional) occurs; as, the setting of a novel.
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     Setting coat (Arch.), the finishing or last coat of
        plastering on walls or ceilings.
  
     Setting dog, a setter. See Setter, n., 2.
  
     Setting pole, a pole, often iron-pointed, used for pushing
        boats along in shallow water.
  
     Setting rule. (Print.) A composing rule.
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