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Compromise :: Compromise (n.) A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West..

Train :: Train (v.) Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement..

Backwoodsman :: Backwoodsman (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States..

Belong :: Belong (v. i.) To be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town..

Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc..

Back :: Back (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.

Herrnhuter :: Herrnhuter (n.) One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen..

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..

Unsettlement :: Unsettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance..

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..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary..

Adjustment :: Adjustment (n.) Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling..

Surrogate :: Surrogate (n.) In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates..

Satisfaction :: Satisfaction (n.) Settlement of a claim, due, or demand; payment; indemnification; adequate compensation..

Postnuptial :: Postnuptial (a.) Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife..

Convictism :: Convictism (n.) The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material..

Recorder :: Recorder (n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court..

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