Setting

Setting - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

SET'TING, ppr. Placing; putting; fixing; studding; appointing; sinking below the horizon, _c.

SET'TING, n.

1. The act of putting, placing, fixing or establishing.

2. The act of sinking below the horizon. The setting of stars is of three kinds, cosmical, acronical, and heliacal. [See these words.]

3. The act or manner of taking birds by a setting dog.

4. Inclosure; as settings of stones.

5. The direction of a current at sea.