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v. i.
To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
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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The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state.
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Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
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To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
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That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest.
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One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
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Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.
v. i.
To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
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Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
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The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
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To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
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To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
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A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
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The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
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The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
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A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
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To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
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That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
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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.
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