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Settle
SET'TLE, n. [L. sedile. See Set.] A seat or bench; something to sit on.
SET'TLE, v.t. [from set.]
1. To place in a permanent condition after wandering or fluctuation.
I will settle you after your old estates. Ezek 36.
2. To fix; to establish; to make permanent in any place.
I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. 1 Chr 17.
3. To establish in business or way of life; as, to settle a son in trade.
4. To marry; as, to settle a doughter.
5. To establish; to confirm.
Her will alone could settle or revoke. Prior.
6. To determine what is uncertain; to establish; to free from doubt; as, to settle questions or points of law. The supreme court have settled the question.
7. To fix; to establish; to make certain or permanent; as, to settle the succession to the thron in a particular family. So we speak of settled habits and settled opinions.
8. To fix or establish; not to suffer to doubt or waver.
It will settle teh wavering and confirm the doubtful. Swift.
9. To make close or compact.
Cover ant-hills up that the rain may settle the turf before the spring.
Mortimer.
10. To cause to subside after being heaved and loosened by frost; or to dry and harden after rain. Thus clear weather settles the roads.
11. To fix or establish by gifr, grant or any legal act; as, to settle a pension on an officer, or an annuity on a child.
12. To fix firmly. Settle your mind on valuable objects.
13. To couse to sink or subside, as extraneous matters in liquors. In fining wine, we add something to settle the lees.
14. To compose; to tranquilize what is disturbed; as, to settle the thoughts or mind when agitated.
15. To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain over a church and sociecty, or parish; as, to settle a minister.
16. To plant with inhabitants; to colonize. The French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England. Plymouth was settled in 1620. Hartford was settled in 1636. Wethersfield was the first settled town in Connecticut.
17. To adjust; to close by amicable agreement or otherwise; as, to settle a controversy or dispute by agreement; treaty or by force.
18. To adjust; to liquidate; to cause it to sink or appear lower by receding from it.
To settle the land, among seamen, to cause it to sink or appear lower by receding from it.
SET'TLE, v.i.
1. To fall to the bottom of liquor; to subside; to sind and rest on the bottom; as, lees or dregs settle. Slimy particles in water settle and form mud at the bottom of rivers.
This words is used of the extraneous matter of liquors, when it subsides spontaneously. But in chemical operations, when substances mixed or in solution are decomposed, and one component part subsides, it is said to be precipitated. But may also be said to settle.
2. To lose motion or fermentation; to deposit, as feces.
A government on such occasions, is always thick before it settles. Addison.
3. To fix one's habitation or residence. Belgians had settled on the southern coast of Britian, before the romans invaded the isle.
4. To marry and establaish a domestic state. Where subsistence is easily obtained, children settle at an early period of life.
5. To become fixed after change or fluctuation; as, the wind came about and settled in the west.
6. To become stationary; To quit a rambling or irregular course for a permanent or methodical one.
7. To become fixed or permanent; to take a lasting form or state; as a settled conviction.
Chyle- runs through the intermediate colors till it settles in an intense red.
Arbuthnot.
8. To rest; to repose.
When time hath worn out their natural vanity, and taught them discretion, their fondness settles on a proper object. Spectator.
9. To become calm calm; to cease from agitation.
Till the fury of his highness settle,
Come not before him. Shak.
10. To make a jointure for a wife.
He sighs with most success that settles well. Garth.
11. To sink by its weight; and in loose bodies, to become more compact. We say, a wall settles; A house settles upon its foundation; a mass of sand settles and becomes more firm.
12. To sink after being heaved, and to dry; as, roads settle in spring after frost and rain.
13. To be ordained and installed over a parish, church or congregation. AB was invited to settle in the first society of New Haven. ND settled in the ministry when very young.
14. To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement. He has settled with his creditors.
15. To make a jointure for a wife.
settle appears in definitions for these words:
Aboriginal Accolade Accord Acorn Adjust Adjusted Adjustment Advancement Adverse Affection Agree Agreed Alco Alight Anglo-danish Anglo-saxon Appoint Aquitanian Arrange Arrangement Assassins Authorize Balance Balanced Bee Belong Belonging Bister Black-lead Booley Brownist Bucaneer Build Call Candidate Certainty Certificate Charter Check Colonize Colonized Colony Combine Compose Composed Composition Composure Compound Compromise Compromised Conclude Conclusively Confirm Conformably Controller Conventionary Correctness Debate Definitively Desideratum Determinate Determination Determine Determined Disorganize Disturbance Dogma Dogmatical Doubted Doubtful Dubious Emigrant Emigrate Encamped Endow Endowed Endowment Entail Entailed Equity Erection Establish Establishment Estate Even-tide Excursion Exhibition Exorbitant Firm Fix Fixed Fixedly Flourish Foot Footing Form Foundation Go Good Ground Habitancy Habitation Habituate Heat Heave Imparl Imparlance Improper Indecision Indefinitely Indeterminate Indeterminately Indigo Indisposition Inhabit Inhabitancy Inhabitant Inhabiting Innovation Institute Interpleader Intestate Inveterate Irresolvedly Itinerant Itinerate Jointure Latitude Latitudinarian Law Lay Lees Light Liquidate Liquidated Liquidator Live Locate Lodge Make Match Maxim Meaning Measure Migrate Mind Negboor Neighbor Nestle Nomad Nomenclator Opinion Ordain Ordained Order Ordinarily Ordinary Ordination Ostmen Pactitious Park Parsonage Perch Perquisite Persuasion Pin-maker Pique Pitch Plant Plantation Planted Planter Plow Portion Positive Postnuptial Pragmatic Pre-establish Pre-establishment Precedence Preconcert Preconcerted Predetermine Prefix Prefixed Preliminary Probation Proportionate Proportionately Proportionateness Random Rate Ratify Reading Readjust Reconcile Reform Refugee Resettle Resettled Resettlement Reside Resolve Rudiment Rule Run Salary Seat Seated Sedate Sedateness Sediment Set Settle Settledness Settlement Settling Sink Sit Size Slumber So Soder Soundly Squat Squatter Stablish Stably Standing Staple Statary State Stated Stayed Stipend Stipendiary Stipulate Stir Straggler Subside Swarm Take Term Think Train Transient Transmigrant Transplant Transplantation Transplanted Treat Umpire Unadjusted Unbalanced Undecided Undeterminate Undetermined Unfixed Unhoused Unliquidated Unprejudicate Unprincipled Unsatisfied Unseated Unsettled Unsettling Unstaid Usance Vagabond Vagrancy Vagrant Wandering Wane Widowhood Wild-land Windy Worth Year
Aboriginal Accolade Accord Acorn Adjust Adjusted Adjustment Advancement Adverse Affection Agree Agreed Alco Alight Anglo-danish Anglo-saxon Appoint Aquitanian Arrange Arrangement Assassins Authorize Balance Balanced Bee Belong Belonging Bister Black-lead Booley Brownist Bucaneer Build Call Candidate Certainty Certificate Charter Check Colonize Colonized Colony Combine Compose Composed Composition Composure Compound Compromise Compromised Conclude Conclusively Confirm Conformably Controller Conventionary Correctness Debate Definitively Desideratum Determinate Determination Determine Determined Disorganize Disturbance Dogma Dogmatical Doubted Doubtful Dubious Emigrant Emigrate Encamped Endow Endowed Endowment Entail Entailed Equity Erection Establish Establishment Estate Even-tide Excursion Exhibition Exorbitant Firm Fix Fixed Fixedly Flourish Foot Footing Form Foundation Go Good Ground Habitancy Habitation Habituate Heat Heave Imparl Imparlance Improper Indecision Indefinitely Indeterminate Indeterminately Indigo Indisposition Inhabit Inhabitancy Inhabitant Inhabiting Innovation Institute Interpleader Intestate Inveterate Irresolvedly Itinerant Itinerate Jointure Latitude Latitudinarian Law Lay Lees Light Liquidate Liquidated Liquidator Live Locate Lodge Make Match Maxim Meaning Measure Migrate Mind Negboor Neighbor Nestle Nomad Nomenclator Opinion Ordain Ordained Order Ordinarily Ordinary Ordination Ostmen Pactitious Park Parsonage Perch Perquisite Persuasion Pin-maker Pique Pitch Plant Plantation Planted Planter Plow Portion Positive Postnuptial Pragmatic Pre-establish Pre-establishment Precedence Preconcert Preconcerted Predetermine Prefix Prefixed Preliminary Probation Proportionate Proportionately Proportionateness Random Rate Ratify Reading Readjust Reconcile Reform Refugee Resettle Resettled Resettlement Reside Resolve Rudiment Rule Run Salary Seat Seated Sedate Sedateness Sediment Set Settle Settledness Settlement Settling Sink Sit Size Slumber So Soder Soundly Squat Squatter Stablish Stably Standing Staple Statary State Stated Stayed Stipend Stipendiary Stipulate Stir Straggler Subside Swarm Take Term Think Train Transient Transmigrant Transplant Transplantation Transplanted Treat Umpire Unadjusted Unbalanced Undecided Undeterminate Undetermined Unfixed Unhoused Unliquidated Unprejudicate Unprincipled Unsatisfied Unseated Unsettled Unsettling Unstaid Usance Vagabond Vagrancy Vagrant Wandering Wane Widowhood Wild-land Windy Worth Year
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