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Settle
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To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
Settle
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To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
Settle
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Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
Settle
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To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
Settle
v. i.
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To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
Settle
v. i.
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To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
Settle
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To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
Settle
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To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
Settle
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To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.
Settle
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To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
Settle
v. i.
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To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
Settle
v. i.
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To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
Settle
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To become calm; to cease from agitation.
Settle
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To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
Settle
v. i.
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To make a jointure for a wife.
Settledness
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The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state.
Settlement
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The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
Settlement
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Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
Settlement
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The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
Settlement
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The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
Settlement
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Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
Settlement
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A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
Settlement
n.
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That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
Settlement
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Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
Settlement
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A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
Settlement
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That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary.
Settlement
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The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
Settlement
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Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
Settlement
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A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support.
Settler
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One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.