settler1 (setler)

[ The vigor and courage displayed by the settlers on the Connecticut, in this first Indian war in New England, struck terror into the savages. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 316. 2. A separator; a tub, pan, vat, or tank in which a separation can be effected by settling. (a) In metal., a tub for separating the quicksilver and amalgam from the pulp in the Washoe proce (which see, bleaching-powders, a tank for the separation of calcium sulphate and iron oxid from the neutral solution of manganese chlorid after treatment of acid manganese chlorid with sodium carbonate, or one in which the manganese peroxid formed by the treatment of the neutral manganese chlorid with milk of lime settles in the form of thin black mud. The former is technically called a chlorid of man ganese settler, and the latter the mud settler. - Settlers' clock. Same as laughing jacka (which see, under jack a ). pan1, 3). (6) In the manufacture settler2 (set'ler), n. [