Definition of settle

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Settle (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.

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Mutable :: Mutable (a.) Changeable; inconstant; unsettled; unstable; fickle.
Random :: Random (a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess..
Payable :: Payable (a.) That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.
Inhabitant :: Inhabitant (n.) One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident..
Unsettle :: Unsettle (v. t.) To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.
Resettlement :: Resettlement (n.) Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees..
Arrangement :: Arrangement (n.) Settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement..
Compromise :: Compromise (n.) To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
Principle :: Principle (n.) A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule (usually, a right rule) of conduct consistently directing one's actions; as, a person of no principle..
Readjust :: Readjust (v. t.) To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
Compone :: Compone (v. t.) To compose; to settle; to arrange.
Back :: Back (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements..
Colonize :: Colonize (v. t.) To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
Encamp :: Encamp (v. i.) To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling..
Settler :: Settler (n.) Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England..
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..
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..
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc..
Disturb :: Disturb (v. t.) To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
Pathogeny :: Pathogeny (n.) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled..
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