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Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support..

Open :: Open (v. t.) To make known; to discover; also, to render available or accessible for settlements, trade, etc..

Inhabitant :: Inhabitant (n.) One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner..

Accommodation :: Accommodation (n.) An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.

Colony :: Colony (n.) The district or country colonized; a settlement.

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..

Preestablishment :: Preestablishment (n.) Settlement beforehand.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country..

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

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..

Composition :: Composition (n.) Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement..

Candidating :: Candidating (n.) The taking of the position of a candidate; specifically, the preaching of a clergyman with a view to settlement..

Resettlement :: Resettlement (n.) Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees..

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..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed..

Decision :: Decision (n.) The act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion..

Finality :: Finality (n.) The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement..

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..

Advancement :: Advancement (v. t.) Settlement on a wife, or jointure..

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