settlement (le as el)

[Eng.settle; -ment.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of settling; the state of being settled; specifically: (1) The act or state of settling, subsiding, or sinking; as, the settlement of a house through the giving way ray of the foundation. (2) Establishment in life, busine , condition, or the like. (3) The act of settling, adjusting, arranging, accommodating, or determining; the adjustment. arrangement, or accommodation of differences or accounts; the removal of or reconciliation of differences or doubts; the liquidation of an account; an arrangement come to or agreed upon to determine a point in dispute or controversy. "But to such a settlement both the court and the nation were averse." - Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. ii. IMG:content-1271.png:[blocks in formation]