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Setter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that sets; as a setter on , or inciter; a setter up ; a setter forth , etc.

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 .]

Setter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. One who hunts victims for sharpers.

4. One who adapts words to music in composition.

5. An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.

6. A shallow seggar for porcelain.

Setter [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Setter-wort [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant, a species of Helleborus.

Setterwort [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots.