SPage 188
- English Word Setter Definition One who adapts words to music in composition.
- English Word Setter Definition An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.
- English Word Setter Definition A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- English Word Setter Definition To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
- English Word Setterwort Definition The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots.
- English Word Setting Definition The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
- English Word Setting Definition The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.
- English Word Setting Definition Something set in, or inserted.
- English Word Setting Definition That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.
- English Word Setting Definition of Set
- English Word Settle Definition A seat of any kind.
- English Word Settle Definition A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
- English Word Settle Definition A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
- English Word Settle Definition To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.
- English Word Settle Definition To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.
- English Word Settle Definition To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
- English Word Settle Definition To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.
- English Word Settle Definition To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
- English Word Settle Definition To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.
- English Word Settle Definition To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.
- English Word Settle Definition To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
- English Word Settle Definition To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
- English Word Settle Definition Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
- English Word Settle Definition To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
- English Word Settle Definition 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.
- English Word Settle Definition To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
- English Word Settle Definition To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
- English Word Settle Definition To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
- English Word Settle Definition 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.
- English Word Settle Definition To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.