settling1 (setling)

[Verbal n. of settlel, v.] 1. The act of one who or that which settles, in any sense of that word.-2. pl. Lees; dregs; sediment. Winter Yellow Cotton Seed Oil, to pa as prime, must be brilliant, free from water and settlings. New York Produce Exchange Report , 1888-9, p. 292. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, iii. 8. 4. A tract of country newly peopled or settled; a colony, especially a colony in its earlier stages: as, the British settlements in Australia; a back settlement. Raleigh... now determined to send emigrants with wives and families, who should make their homes in the New World; and he granted a charter of in corpora tion for the settlement. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., 1. 83. n. of settle2, v.] Reconciliation. Ho [the dove] brozt in hir beke a bronch of olyue,... That watz the syngne of sauyté that sende hem oure lorde, & the saztlyng of hymself with tho sely bestez. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 490. settling-day (set'ling-dā), n. A day set apart for the settling of accounts; specifically, in the stock-exchange, the fortnightly account-day for shares and stocks. IMG:content-0728.png:[blocks in formation] As prime a set -to And regular turn-up as ever you knew. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 317. set-trap (set'trap), n. A trap which works with a spring or other device to be released and set in operation by means of a trigger, the animal being caught when the trap is sprung. Most traps are of this description. setula (set'ū-lä), n.; pl. setulæ (-lē). [NL., dim. of L. seta, sæta, a bristle: see seta.] A small seta; a little bristle; a setule.