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The Century, XXVIII. 116. Sharp-set, keen, as a saw; hence, figuratively, eager; keen in the pursuit of any end; keenly resentful; also, very hungry; ravenous. The News of this Ma acre, adding a new Edge of Revenge to the old Edge of Ambition, made the Danes sharper set against the English than ever they had been before. Baker , Chronicles, p. 13. The perplexity of manner lin e e will not let him feed, and he is sharpe set at an argument when hee should cut his meate. Bp. Earle , Micro-cosmographie, A Downe-right Scholler. By this light she looks as sharp - set as a sparrow-hawk! Fletcher, Wit without Money, v. 4.