Definition of settle

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Settle (n.) 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..

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Weighlock :: Weighlock (n.) A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled..
Displant :: Displant (v. t.) To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants..
Semble :: Semble (a.) It seems; -- chiefly used impersonally in reports and judgments to express an opinion in reference to the law on some point not necessary to be decided, and not intended to be definitely settled in the cause..
Unsettle :: Unsettle (v. i.) To become unsettled or unfixed; to be disordered.
Dissettlement :: Dissettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled..
Unliquidated :: Unliquidated (a.) Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled.
Problematical :: Problematical (a.) Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful.
Satle :: Satle (v. t. & i.) To settle.
Exorbitant :: Exorbitant (a.) Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.
Mortality :: Mortality (n.) The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming..
Stipendiarian :: Stipend (v. t.) To pay by settled wages.
Widowhood :: Widowhood (n.) Estate settled on a widow.
Light :: Light (v. i.) To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect..
Colonize :: Colonize (v. i.) To remove to, and settle in, a distant country; to make a colony..
Stabulation :: Stably (adv.) In a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled..
Standing :: Standing (a.) Established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees..
Rate :: Rate (v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) 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..
Affection :: Affection (n.) A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children..
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