Definition of settle

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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..

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Hearth :: Hearth (n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles..
Determine :: Determine (v. t.) To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide; as, the court has determined the cause..
Indecisiveness :: Indecisiveness (n.) The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.
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..
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.
Convictism :: Convictism (n.) The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.
Pathogeny :: Pathogeny (n.) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled..
Indecisive :: Indecisive (a.) Undetermined; prone to indecision; irresolute; unsettled; wavering; vacillating; hesitating; as, an indecisive state of mind; an indecisive character..
Postnuptial :: Postnuptial (a.) Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife..
Ordinary :: Ordinary (n.) That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution..
Vagrant :: Vagrant (a.) Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar..
Indecision :: Indecision (n.) Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation..
Antirenter :: Antirenter (n.) One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York.
Seat :: Seat (v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle..
Sag :: Sag (v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges..
Displant :: Displant (v. t.) To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a country of inhabitants..
Botany Bay :: Botany Bay () A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770..
Finisher :: Finisher (n.) Something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything..
Perch :: Perch (v. i.) To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost..
Administrator :: Administrator (n.) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority..
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