Definition of settle

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Settle (n.) 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..

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Itinerant :: Itinerant (a.) One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled..
Settle :: Settle (n.) 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..
Alight :: Alight (v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof..
Cherokees :: Cherokees (n. pl.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians, formerly inhabiting the region about the head waters of the Tennessee River. They are now mostly settled in the Indian Territory, and have become one of the most civilized of the Indian Tribes..
Stipendiarian :: Stipend (v. t.) To pay by settled wages.
Compromise :: Compromise (n.) To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
Administer :: Administer (v. t.) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor..
Establishment :: Establishment (n.) The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
Reform :: Reform (v. i.) To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform..
Adjudicate :: Adjudicate (v. t.) To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree..
Dissettlement :: Dissettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled..
Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.
Lee :: Lee (n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural..
Fixed :: Fixed (a.) Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.
Antirenter :: Antirenter (n.) One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York.
Composure :: Composure (n.) A settled state; calmness; sedateness; tranquillity; repose.
Preestablishment :: Preestablishment (n.) Settlement beforehand.
Settle :: Settle (n.) 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..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law..
Vagrant :: Vagrant (a.) Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar..
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