RESETTED

Verb

resetted

simple past tense and past participle of reset (in the sense of "receive stolen goods etc.")

Anagrams

• detester, retested, settered, streeted

Source: Wiktionary


RESET

Re*set" (r-st"), v. t.

Definition: To set again; as, to reset type; to reset copy; to reset a diamond.

Re"set (r"st), n.

1. The act of resetting.

2. (Print.)

Definition: That which is reset; matter set up again.

Re*set" (r-st"), n. Etym: [OF. recete, recepte, a receiving. Cf. Receipt.] (Scots Law)

Definition: The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. Jamieson.

Re*set", v. t. (Scots Law)

Definition: To harbor or secrete; to hide, as stolen goods or a criminal. We shall see if an English hound is to harbor and reset the Southrons here. Sir. W. Scott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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