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2166. To set around a pod. See pod. - To set forth or forward, to begin to march; advance. The sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward . Num. x. 17. I must away this night toward Padua, And it is meet I presently set forth. Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. 404. I take this as an unexpected favour, that thou shouldst set forth out of doors with me, to accompany me a little in Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , p. 237. my way. To set in. (a) To begin: as, winter in England usually sets in about December. Yet neither doe the wet or dry Seasons set in or go out exactly at one time in all Years; neither are all places subject to wet or dry Weather alike. Dampier , Voyages, II. iii. 77. (b) To become settled in such or such a state. When the weather was set in to be very bad. Add is on . (c) To flow toward the shore: as, the tide sets in : often used figuratively. A tide of fashion set in in favour of French in the England of the thirteenth century. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 159. (d) To reappear after temporary absence or disappearance, as a school of fish. (et) To go in; make an onset or a ault. Neuertheles the i sette in a-monge hem, for the i were moc he peple and stronge, and the cristin hem resceyved full fiercely. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 588. They had all ready devoured Unca & his in their hops; and surly they had done it in deed, if the English had not timly sett in for his aide. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 431. To set off. (a) To start, as on a journey.