Definition of settle

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Settle (v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law..

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Sap :: Sap (v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
Settle :: Settle (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..
Preempt :: Preempt (v. t. & i.) To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption..
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..
Vagrant :: Vagrant (a.) Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar..
Doubter :: Doubter (n.) One who doubts; one whose opinion is unsettled; one who scruples.
Ordinarily :: Ordinarily (adv.) According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it..
Unsettledness :: Unsettledness (n.) The quality or state of being unsettled.
Policy :: Policy (n.) The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state..
Indecision :: Indecision (n.) Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation..
Contango :: Contango (n.) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day..
Staple :: Staple (n.) A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
Proportionate :: Proportionate (v.) To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes..
Inveterate :: Inveterate (v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.
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..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder..
Seat :: Seat (v. t.) To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
Settle :: Settle (n.) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
Jutes :: "Jutes (n. pl.) Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century..
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