SPage 189
- English Word Settle Definition To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
- English Word Settle Definition To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
- English Word Settle Definition To become calm; to cease from agitation.
- English Word Settle Definition To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
- English Word Settle Definition To make a jointure for a wife.
- English Word Settled Definition of Settle
- English Word Settledness Definition The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state.
- English Word Settlement Definition The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
- English Word Settlement Definition Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
- English Word Settlement Definition 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.
- English Word Settlement Definition 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.
- English Word Settlement Definition Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
- English Word Settlement Definition 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.
- English Word Settlement Definition That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
- English Word Settlement Definition Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
- English Word Settlement Definition A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
- English Word Settlement Definition 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.
- English Word Settlement Definition 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.
- English Word Settlement Definition Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
- English Word Settlement Definition 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.
- English Word Settler Definition One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
- English Word Settler Definition Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.
- English Word Settler Definition That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
- English Word Settler Definition A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
- English Word Settling Definition of Settle
- English Word Settling Definition The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
- English Word Settling Definition That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.
- English Word Setula Definition A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta.
- English Word Setulae Definition of Setula
- English Word Setule Definition A setula.