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Two or three men in pink, on their way to the meet, drop in, and are very jovial and sharp - set, as indeed we all are. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 4. set1 (set), n. [Early mod. E. also sett (still used archaically), sette; IMG:content-0717.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A rudimentary fruit: used especially of apples, pears, peaches, etc.: as, the peaches set well, but the sets all dropped off. Compar set1 , set1, v. i., 3.-3. The setting of the sun or other luminary; hence, the close, as of a day. The weary sun hath made a golden set . Shak., Rich. III., v. 3. 19. If the sun shine pale, and fall into blacke clouds in his set , it sign if i eth the winde is shifting into the North quarter. Heywood , Hierarchy of Angels, p. 183. Thou that faintly smilest still, As a Naiad in a well, Looking at the set of day. Tennyson, Adeline. 4t. A venture; a wager; a stake; hence, a game of chance; a match. When we have match'd our rackets to these balls, We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard. Shak ., Hen. V., i. 2. 262. I would buy your pardon, Though at the highest set ; even with my life. Beau, and Fl ., Maid's Tragedy, iv. 1. I give o'er the set , throw down the cards. Middle ton , Chaste Maid, ii. 1. 5. General movement; direction; drift; tendency: used both literally and figuratively. Individuals, alive to the particular evils of the age, and watching the very set of the current. De Quincey , Style, i. The set of opinion in England at present.