To set out Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. . (a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an estate; to set out the widow's thirds. (b) To publish, as a proclamation . Obs. (c) To adorn; to embellish.
    An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can become. Dryden.
    (d) To raise, equip, and send forth; to furnish. R.
    The Venetians pretend they could set out, in case of great necessity, thirty men-of-war. Addison.
    (e) To show; to display; to recommend; to set off.
    I could set out that best side of Luther. Atterbury.
    (f) To show; to prove. R. "Those very reasons set out how heinous his sin was." Atterbury. (g) (Law) To recite; to state at large.
Definitions
  1. to begin a journey or course; as, to set out for London, or from London; to set out in business;to set out in life or the world.

Webster 1913