Servir l’artillerie, Fr. To serve the artillery.
To SET a sentry, (Poser une sentinelle, Fr.) To place a soldier at any particular spot for its security.
To Set on, (Attaquer, Fr.) To attack.
To Set at defiance, (defier, Fr.) To defy; to dare to combat, &c.
To Set up. To make a man fit for military movements and parade, according to the old and ridiculous method of military instruction; by which a man was placed in stiff and awkward attitudes, with the notion of making him supple and active! But that excess of setting up which stiffens the person, and tends to throw the body backward instead of forward, is contrary to every true principle of movement, and must, therefore, be most carefully avoided. By the new principles nature is consulted, and instead of teaching one man awkward positions, fifty or an hundred are taught at once to move in an easy and natural manner.
SETENDY, Ind. The militia.
SETTER, in gunnery, a round stick to drive fuzes, or any other compositions, into cases made of paper.
SHAFT-rings. See [Rings].
SEUIL, Fr. A threshold.
Seuil d’ecluse, Fr. A thick piece of wood which is laid cross-ways between two stakes at the bottom of the water, for the purpose of supporting the flood-gate.