Definition of "insetting" []

• Present participle of inset. (verb)

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• "The ellipse that Floyd sketched was too big to be a navel, though it was in the right place, and he quickly destroyed any lingering resemblance by insetting it with teeth."
• "I take another disbelieving look at her clothes: the embroidery and the brocade, the insetting of precious stones."
• "It came in at the ebb of a great tide of poetry which followed on the French Revolution, and before the insetting of the great tide of Victorian [ix] prose."