A seat or bench; something to sit on.

To place in a permanent condition after wandering or fluctuation. I will settle you after your old estates. Ezekiel 36:11.

To fix; to establish; to make permanent in any place. I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. Chronicles 17:14.

To establish in business or way of life; as, to settle a son in trade.

To marry; as, to settle a doughter.

To establish; to confirm. Her will alone could settle or revoke.

To determine what is uncertain; to establish; to free from doubt; as, to settle questions or points of law. The supreme court have settled the question.

To fix; to establish; to make certain or permanent; as, to settle the succession to the thron in a particular family. So we speak of settled habits and settled opinions.

To fix or establish; not to suffer to doubt or waver. It will settle teh wavering and confirm the doubtful. Swift .

To make close or compact. Cover ant-hills up that the rain may settle the turf before the spring.

To cause to subside after being heaved and loosened by frost; or to dry and harden after rain. Thus clear weather settles the roads.

To fix or establish by gifr, grant or any legal act; as, to settle a pension on an officer, or an annuity on a child.

To fix firmly. Settle your mind on valuable objects.

To fall to the bottom of liquor; to subside; to sind and rest on the bottom; as, lees or dregs settle. Slimy particles in water settle and form mud at the bottom of rivers. This words is used of the extraneous matter of liquors, when it subsides spontaneously. But in chemical operations, when substances mixed or in solution are decomposed, and one component part subsides, it is said to be precipitated. But may also be said to settle.

To lose motion or fermentation; to deposit, as feces. A government on such occasions, is always thick before it settles.

To fix one’s habitation or residence. Belgians had settled on the southern coast of Britian, before the romans invaded the isle.

To marry and establaish a domestic state. Where subsistence is easily obtained, children settle at an early period of life.

To become fixed after change or fluctuation; as, the wind came about and settled in the west.

To become stationary; To quit a rambling or irregular course for a permanent or methodical one.

To become fixed or permanent; to take a lasting form or state; as a settled conviction. Chyle- runs through the intermediate colors till it settles in an intense red.