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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Settle :: Settle (n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law..
Establishment :: Establishment (n.) The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
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..
Settler :: Settler (n.) That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest..
Determine :: Determine (v. t.) To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
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..
Entail :: Entail (n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage..
Bushman :: Bushman (n.) A woodsman; a settler in the bush.
Decide :: Decide (v. t.) To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle..
Referee :: Referee (n.) One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it..
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..
Shittle :: Shittle (a.) Wavering; unsettled; inconstant.
Settle :: Settle (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..
Doubt :: Doubt (v. i.) Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
Intrusion :: Intrusion (n.) The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.
Light-minded :: Light-minded (a.) Unsettled; unsteady; volatile; not considerate.
Inveterate :: Inveterate (v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.
Resettle :: Resettle (v. t.) To settle again.
Clear :: Clear (v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house..
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