settle, setel, setil, #setle

[A. S. setl; cogn. with Goth. sitts =a seat, a throne; O. H. Ger. sezal; Ger.se el.] 1. A seat or bench; a stool; generally a long, high backed, stationary seat made to accommodate several sitters. "Basil, my friend! Come, take thy place on the settle." Long fellow: Evangeline, i. 2. 2. A part of a platform lower than another part. *settle-bed, s . A bed so constructed as to form a seat or settle by day. [SETTEE-BED.] set-tle, *set-le, v . t . & i . [A. S. setlan to fix. Skeat considers that there is a confusion with the Mid. Eng. verb saghtlen , sahtlen , or saughtlen =to reconcile, to make peace, from A. S. saht =reconciliation.] A. Transitive : 1. To place in a fixed or firm position; to fix. "Settled in his face I see Sad resolution." Milton, P. L., vi. 540. camel, her , there ; IMG:content-1269.png:[blocks in formation] 11. To clear of dregs, sediment, or impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure and clear, as a liquid. 12. To cause to sink or subside to the bottom. 13. To render compact, close, or solid; to bring to a smooth, dry, and pa able condition. "Cover ant hills up, that the rain may settle the turf before the spring."-.1 espring." - Mortimer: Husbandry. 14. To plant with inhabitants; to people, to colonize; as, The French settled Canada. 15. To give the final touch to; to finish; to do for. ( Colloq .) B. Intransitive: 1. To descend and stop; to come down and take up a position on something. "And, yet more splendid, numerous flocks Of pigeons, settling on the rocks." Moore: Paradise and the Peri. 2. To become calm; to calm down; to subside. "Till the fury of his highne settle." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, iv. 4. 3. To subside; to sink to the bottom, as dregs from a clarifying liquid. 4. To subside: to become lower, as a building by the sinking of its foundation, or the displacement of the earth beneath. 5. To become fixed or permanent; to a ume a fixed or permanent form, condition, or state from a temporary or changing state. "According to laws established by the divine wisdom. it was wrought by degrees from one form into another, till it settled at length into an habitable earth."-Burnet: Theory of the Earth. 6. To become compact or solid. "That country became a gained ground by the muả brought down by the Nilus, which settled by degrees into a firm land." - Browne: Vulgar Errors. 7. To establish a residence; to take up a permanent abode or residence; to found a colony. "Among the Teutonic people who settled in Britain, the chief tribes were the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes." E. A. Freeman : Old English History , ch. v. 8. To be established in a mode of life; to quit an irregular, unsettled, or desultory life for a methodical one; to enter the married state or the state of a householder; to establish one's self in a busine , employment, or profe ion. (Frequently with down.) "As people marry now, and settle, Fierce love abates his usual metal." Prior: Alma, ii. 49. 9. To be ordained or installed as a minister over a church or congregation. 10. To become clear or pure; to change from a turbid or disturbed state to the opposite; to become free from dregs, sediment, or impurities by their sinking to the bottom as in case of liquids. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1270.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Fixed; firmly established or set. 2. Permanently or deeply fixed; deep-rooted, unchanging, steady, decided, firmly rooted. "A deep cold settled aspect naught can shake." Byron. Childe Harold , iv. 173, 3. Quiet, methodical; as, He leads a settled life. 4. Firmly resolved. "I am settled , and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat." Shakesp.: Macbeth , i. 7. 5. Composed, calm, sober, grave. "Reasons find of settled gravity."-Shakesp.: Sonnet 49. 6. Arranged or adjusted by agreement, payment, or otherwise; as, a settled account, settled differ ences. settled-estate, s. English Law : An estate held by some tenant for life, under conditions, more or le strict, defined by the deed.