Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In binding, the placing of a leaf or leaves (as. maps, illustrations, or advertisements) between or within the sections of a printed book, magazine, etc.
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- verb Present participle of
inset .
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Examples
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The ellipse that Floyd sketched was too big to be a navel, though it was in the right place, and he quickly destroyed any lingering resemblance by insetting it with teeth.
Tin 2010
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I take another disbelieving look at her clothes: the embroidery and the brocade, the insetting of precious stones.
The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009
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I take another disbelieving look at her clothes: the embroidery and the brocade, the insetting of precious stones.
The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009
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I take another disbelieving look at her clothes: the embroidery and the brocade, the insetting of precious stones.
The White Queen Philippa Gregory 2009
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It came in at the ebb of a great tide of poetry which followed on the French Revolution, and before the insetting of the great tide of Victorian [ix] prose.
Extract from Richard Garnett's "Introduction" to _Tales and Stories_ 2002
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The ellipse that Floyd sketched was too big to be a navel, though it was in the right place, and he quickly destroyed any lingering resemblance by insetting it with teeth.
The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972
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As for the actual printing -- the endless insetting of paper, pulling down on the lever, removing the paper -- this he could no longer stand for more than half an hour at a time.
The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909
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As the two voyagers pursued their strenuous way up-stream, rock and eddy and "rip" consuming all their attention, the furious bull kept abreast of them along the shore, splashing in the shallows and bellowing his challenge, till at length a deep insetting of the current compelled him to mount the bank, along which he continued his vain pursuit for several miles.
The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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First builded into the etheric form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials.
Death—and After? Annie Wood Besant 1890
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The reader will forgive me for here insetting the Certificates which I have just received from Mr. Kipp, of the city of New York, and two others, who were with me; which I ask for the satisfaction of the world, who read the above account.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841
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