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Set (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Set

A dead set: a concerted scheme to defraud a person by gaming.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

See also the definition in Nathan Bailey's 1736 dictionary of canting and thieving slang.

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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About

Francis Grose was independently wealthy, having inherited money from his father, a jeweller. Finding himself overspending, he published a number of books; his Provincial Glossary seems to have been the starting-point for the Vulgar Tongue reproduced here.

Scuttle
Sea Crab
Sea Lawyer
Sealer
Secret
Seedy
Sees
Served
Seraglio
Send
Set
Setter
To Settle
Seven-sided Animal
Shabbaroon
Shaftsbury
To Shag
Shag-bag
Shake
Shake-1
Shallow Pate