Settle

Definition:

  • (n.) A seat of any kind.
  • (n.) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
  • (n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (n.) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (n.) To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.
  • (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.
  • (n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
  • (n.) To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.
  • (n.) Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
  • (n.) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
  • (v. i.) To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
  • (v. i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
  • (v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
  • (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.
  • (v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
  • (v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
  • (v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
  • (v. i.) To become calm; to cease from agitation.
  • (v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
  • (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.

Compare settle with other words:

settle vs. sustain

settle vs. stay

colonize vs. settle

settle vs. setule

settle vs. suttle

ettle vs. settle

settle vs. settled

mettle vs. settle

fettle vs. settle

settee vs. settle

kettle vs. settle

nettle vs. settle

handle vs. settle

settle vs. tuesday

calculate vs. settle

settle vs. standing

settle vs. setup

offset vs. settle

necessity vs. settle

outsettler vs. settle

settle vs. sink

resolve vs. settle

compromise vs. settle

settle vs. sit

indenture vs. settle

domicile vs. settle

lead vs. settle

destroy vs. settle

bond vs. settle

calm vs. settle

settle vs. stood

position vs. settle

inform vs. settle

ruin vs. settle

settle vs. stablish

inhabit vs. settle

live vs. settle

domiciliate vs. settle

radicate vs. settle

settle vs. settlor

clinching vs. settle

homesteader vs. settle

compone vs. settle

determinable vs. settle

disputable vs. settle

settle vs. unquiet

habituate vs. settle

resettle vs. settle

settle vs. unsettle

liquidate vs. settle

adjudicate vs. settle

nestle vs. settle

roost vs. settle

emigrant vs. settle

immigrant vs. settle

homestead vs. settle

reckon vs. settle

settle vs. viking

negotiate vs. settle

clearing vs. settle

lay vs. settle

settle vs. subside

sag vs. settle

reside vs. settle

referee vs. settle

inveterate vs. settle

compound vs. settle

content vs. settle

define vs. settle

nest vs. settle

ensconce vs. settle

entail vs. settle

alight vs. settle

administrator vs. settle

pitch vs. settle

settle vs. settler

agitate vs. settle

settle vs. settlement

settle vs. wander

regulate vs. settle

disturb vs. settle

establish vs. settle

fix vs. settle

determine vs. settle

decide vs. settle

compose vs. settle

arrange vs. settle

adjust vs. settle

jointure vs. settle

bench vs. settle

linen vs. settle

judge vs. settle

set vs. settle

chat vs. settle

bed vs. settle

octothorpe vs. settle

molecule vs. settle