Definition of settle

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Settle (n.) 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..

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Moot :: Moot (n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot..
Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense..
Sap :: Sap (v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
Open :: Open (v. t.) To make known; to discover; also, to render available or accessible for settlements, trade, etc..
Pathogeny :: Pathogeny (n.) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled..
Penal :: Penal (a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement..
Unfix :: Unfix (v. t.) To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections..
Endowment :: Endowment (n.) That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college..
Irresolvedly :: Irresolvedly (adv.) Without settled determination; in a hesitating manner; doubtfully.
Unsettlement :: Unsettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance..
Accord :: Accord (v. t.) To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies..
Settled :: Settled (imp. & p. p.) of Settl.
Ratify :: Ratify (n.) To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination..
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..
Estate :: Estate (n.) Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
Pitch :: Pitch (v. i.) To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
Readjust :: Readjust (v. t.) To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
Habituate :: Habituate (v. t.) To settle as an inhabitant.
Hearth :: Hearth (n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles..
Resettle :: Resettle (v. t.) To settle again.
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