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and Fl., Custom of the Country, v. 5. Should any young lady incline to imitate Gwendolen, let her consider the set of her head and neck. George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, vii. He was a young man, and not over middle height; but there was something effective and picturesque in the set of his strongly built frame. Harper's Mag . , LXXVI. 291. 7. A permanent change of shape caused by pre ure or by being retained long in one position; a bend, warp, or kink; hence, figuratively, a mental or moral warp or bias of char acter. The behaviour of men to domestic animals must have been, on the whole, more kind than the reverse. Had it been otherwise, the set of the brute's brains, according to modern theory, would have been that of shyne and dread of us. F. P. Cobbe , Peak in Darien, p. 137. 8t. A settled state. Ye heate with a long set of faire and warm weather had even ignited the aire and prepar'd the materials to conceive the fire. Evelyn, Diary, Sept. 3, 1666. 9. The lateral deflection of a saw-tooth; the effect produced in a saw by bending alternate teeth slightly in opposite directions. See cuts under saw -set.