Servir

l’artillerie, Fr. To serve the artillery. To SET a sentry , ( Poser une sentinelle , Fr. ) To place a soldier at any particular spot for its security. To Set on , ( Attaquer , Fr. ) To attack. To Set at defiance , ( defier , Fr. ) To defy; to dare to combat, . To Set up . To make a man fit for military movements and parade, according to the old and ridiculous method of military instruction; by which a man was placed in stiff and awkward attitudes, with the notion of making him supple and active! But that exce of setting up which stiffens the person, and tends to throw the body backward instead of forward, is contrary to every true principle of movement, and must, therefore, be most carefully avoided. By the new principles nature is consulted, and instead of teaching one man awkward positions, fifty or an hundred are taught at once to move in an easy and natural manner.