The Collaborative International Dictionary
Set \Set\ (s[e^]t), a.
Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance.
Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices.
Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle. ``The set phrase of peace.''
--Shak.Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer.
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Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted. Set hammer.
A hammer the head of which is not tightly fastened upon the handle, but may be reversed.
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A hammer with a concave face which forms a die for shaping anything, as the end of a bolt, rivet, etc.
Set line, a line to which a number of baited hooks are attached, and which, supported by floats and properly secured, may be left unguarded during the absence of the fisherman.
Set nut, a jam nut or lock nut. See under Nut.
Set screw (Mach.), a screw, sometimes cupped or printed at one end, and screwed through one part, as of a machine, tightly upon another part, to prevent the one from slipping upon the other.
Set speech, a speech carefully prepared before it is delivered in public; a formal or methodical speech.
Usage examples of "set speech".
The set speech is one of those things like the Rotary Club luncheon.
He was a master of guiding public opinion either directly through a set speech to a living audience or, indirectly, through an uncanny sense of how to use the press to his own ends.
Harding's set speech for years had been the career of Alexander Hamilton, the result of once having read, while taking the cure at Battle Creek, a novel based on Hamilton's life.
Then Trixia Bonsol rose from her place among the Spiders and made a set speech as stately as anything at Jirlib’.
There was a set speech by his side, written carefully in the last hour, but now that he had made his decision, he crumpled it and tossed it in the waste-basket.