Sĕt'ting, n.

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

2. The act of sinking, or seeming to sink, below the horizon.
3. The act or manner of taking birds by a setting-dog.
4. (a.) Something set in or inserted. “Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.” Ex. xxviii. 17. (b.) That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a mosaic pin.
5. The direction of a current, sea, or wind.
6. (Masonry.) The hardening of plaster or cement. Gwill.