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

Fine :: Fine (n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct..

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

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

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

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..

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

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled..

Footing :: Footing (n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.

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..

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it..

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..

Arrangement :: Arrangement (n.) Settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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