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

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..

Preestablishment :: Preestablishment (n.) Settlement beforehand.

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..

Moot :: Moot (n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot..

Intrusion :: Intrusion (n.) The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.

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

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..

Plantation :: Plantation (n.) An original settlement in a new country; a colony.

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

Penal :: Penal (a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement..

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

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

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

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