He sighs with most success that settles well.
Garth.
Set"tled*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being settled; confirmed
state. [R.] Bp. Hall.
Set"tle*ment (?), n. 1. The act of setting, or the state of being
settled. Specifically: --
(a) Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or
installation as pastor.
Every man living has a design in his head upon wealth power, or
settlement in the world.
L'Estrange.
(b) 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.
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(c) 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.
(d) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of
giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
My flocks, my fields, my woods, my pastures take, With settlement
as good as law can make.
Dryden.
(e) (Law) 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.
2. That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
Specifically: --
(a) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs. [Obs.]
Fuller's earth left a thick settlement.
Mortimer.
(b) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as,
settlement in the West.
(c) 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.
3. (Arch.) (a) 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. (b) pl. Fractures or dislocations caused by
settlement.
4. (Law) 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. Blackstone. Bouvier.
Act of settlement (Eng. Hist.), the statute of 12 and 13 William III,
by which the crown was limited to the present reigning house (the house
of Hanover). Blackstone.
Set"tler (?), n. 1. One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc.
2. Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony;
a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England.
3. That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles
or decides a contest. [Colloq.]
4. A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended
in a liquid, is allowed to settle.
Set"tling (?), n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, settles; the
act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting,
etc.
2. pl. That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs;
sediment. Milton.
Settling day, a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market.
Set"-to` (?), n. A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like.
[Colloq.] Halliwell.
||Set"u*la (?), n.; pl. Setulæ (#). [L. setula, saetula, dim. of seta,
||saeta, bristle.] A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta.
Set"ule (?), n. [See Setula.] A setula.
Set"u*lose` (?), a. Having small bristles or setæ.
Set"wall` (?), n. [CF. Cetewale.] (Bot.) A plant formerly valued for
its restorative qualities (Valeriana officinalis, or V. Pyrenaica).
[Obs.] [Written also setwal.] Chaucer.
Sev"en (?), a. [OE. seven, seoven, seofen, AS. seofon, seofan, seofen;
akin to D. zeven, OS., Goth., & OHG. sibun, G. sieben, Icel. sjau, sjö,
Sw. sju, Dan. syv, Lith. septyni, Russ. seme, W. saith, Gael. seachd,
Ir. seacht, L. septem, Gr. &?;&?;&?;, Skr. saptan. √305. Cf.
Hebdomad, Heptagon, September.] One more than six; six and one added;
as, seven days make one week.
Seven sciences. See the Note under Science, n., 4. -- Seven stars
(Astron.), the Pleiades. -- Seven wonders of the world. See under
Wonders. -- Seven-year apple (Bot.), a rubiaceous shrub (Genipa
clusiifolia) growing in the West Indies; also, its edible fruit. --
Seven-year vine (Bot.), a tropical climbing plant (Ipomœa tuberosa)
related to the morning- glory.
Sev"en, n. 1. The number greater by one than six; seven units or
objects.
Of every beast, and bird, and insect small, Game sevens and pairs.
Milton.