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- Settlement - n. - The act of setting, or the state of being settled.
- Settlement - n. - Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
- Settlement - n. - The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
- Settlement - n. - The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
- Settlement - n. - Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
- 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 - n. - That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
- Settlement - n. - Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
- Settlement - n. - A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
- 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 - n. - The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
- Settlement - n. - Fractures or dislocations caused by 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.
- Portion - n. - The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
- Postnuptial - a. - Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.
- Plantation - n. - An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
- Composition - n. - Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement; agreement.
- Moot - n. - A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.
- Settlement - n. - The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
- Reckoning - n. - Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.
- Intrusion - n. - The settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.
- Probation - n. - The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor.
- 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 - n. - The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
- 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.
- Contango - n. - The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day.
- Settlement - n. - A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
- Inhabitant - n. - One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident.
- Compromise - n. - A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both sides; a reciprocal abatement of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement.
- Surrogate - n. - In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates.