Definition of settle

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Settle (v. i.) To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring..

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Fixed :: Fixed (a.) Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.
Candidating :: Candidating (n.) The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement..
Angles :: Angles (n. pl.) An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc..
Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor..
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..
Colonize :: Colonize (v. t.) To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
Portion :: Portion (n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance..
Unsettledness :: Unsettledness (n.) The quality or state of being unsettled.
Reckon :: Reckon (v. i.) To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
Nomenclator :: Nomenclator (n.) One who gives names to things, or who settles and adjusts the nomenclature of any art or science; also, a list or vocabulary of technical names..
Africander :: Africander (n.) One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a colored mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers..
Doubt :: Doubt (v. i.) A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation..
Ordinary :: Ordinary (n.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution..
Establish :: Establish (a.) To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
Postnuptial :: Postnuptial (a.) Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife..
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..
Habitation :: Habitation (n.) Place of abode; settled dwelling; residence; house.
Light-minded :: Light-minded (a.) Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.
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..
Decided :: Decided (a.) Free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose..
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