setter

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One that sets.
• noun Any of several breeds of long-haired hunting dogs originally trained to indicate the presence of game by crouching in a set position.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cut the dewlap of (an ox or a cow), helleboraster, or setter-wort, being put into the cut, and an issue thereby made for ill-humors to vent themselves. Compare setterwort.
• noun A machine for setting out hides. See to set out .
• noun One who or that which sets: as, a setter of precious stones; a setter of type (a compositor); a setter of music to words (a musical composer): chiefly in composition.
• noun In the game of hazard. See hazard, 1.
• noun An implement or any object used in or for setting.
• noun A kind of hunting-dog, named from its original habit of setting or crouching when it scented game.
• noun A man who is considered as performing the office of a setting-dog—that is, who seeks out and indicates to his confederates persons to be plundered.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.
• noun (Zoöl.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.
• noun One who hunts victims for sharpers.
• noun One who adapts words to music in composition.
• noun obsolete An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.
• noun (Pottery) A shallow seggar for porcelain.
• transitive verb Prov. Eng. To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb UK, dialect, transitive To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
• noun One who sets something, especially a typesetter
• noun A long-haired breed of gundog (Wikipedia).
• noun volleyball The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
• noun computing, programming A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
• noun sports, in combinations A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun one who sets written material into type
• noun a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point