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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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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