Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   {To set over}.
       (a) To appoint or constitute as supervisor, inspector,
           ruler, or commander.
       (b) To assign; to transfer; to convey.

   {To set right}, to correct; to put in order.

   {To set sail}. (Naut.) See under {Sail}, n.

   {To set store by}, to consider valuable.

   {To set the fashion}, to determine what shall be the fashion;
      to establish the mode.

   {To set the teeth on edge}, to affect the teeth with a
      disagreeable sensation, as when acids are brought in
      contact with them.

   {To set the watch} (Naut.), to place the starboard or port
      watch on duty.

   {To set to}, to attach to; to affix to. ``He . . . hath set
      to his seal that God is true.'' --John iii. 33.

   {To set up}. (a) To erect; to raise; to elevate; as, to set
      up a building, or a machine; to set up a post, a wall, a
      pillar.
       (b) Hence, to exalt; to put in power. ``I will . . . set
           up the throne of David over Israel.'' --2 Sam. iii.
           10.
       (c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to
           establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to
           set up a school.
       (d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a
           son in trade.
       (e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark.
       (f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice.

                 I'll set up such a note as she shall hear.
                                                  --Dryden.
       (g) To advance; to propose as truth or for reception; as,
           to set up a new opinion or doctrine. --T. Burnet.
       (h) To raise from depression, or to a sufficient fortune;
           as, this good fortune quite set him up.
       (i) To intoxicate. [Slang]
       (j) (Print.) To put in type; as, to set up copy; to
           arrange in words, lines, etc., ready for printing;
           as, to set up type.

   {To set up the rigging} (Naut.), to make it taut by means of
      tackles. --R. H. Dana, Jr.

   Syn: See {Put}.