Seton vs Setout - What's the difference?
seton | setout |
(medicine, agriculture) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
* {{quote-book, year=1904, author=Gustave Flaubert, title=Over Strand and Field, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The animal was lean and tall, and had a moth-eaten mane, rough hoofs and loose shoes; a seton bobbed up and down on its breast. }}
an outset
(colloquial, dated) a display or spread
*1854 , Dickens, Hard Times , Chapter 8:
*:‘You don’t hate Sissy, Tom?’
*:‘I hate to be obliged to call her Jupe. And she hates me,’ said Tom, moodily.
*:‘No, she does not, Tom, I am sure!’
*:‘She must,’ said Tom. ‘She must just hate and detest the whole set-out of us.
As nouns the difference between seton and setout
is that seton is seton while setout is an outset.seton
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