As people marry now and settle.
Prior.
4. To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in
the practice of law.
5. To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of
rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the
spring.
6. To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by
depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine
settles by standing.
A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles.
Addison.
7. To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid,
or the sediment of a reserveir.
8. To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of
a house, etc.