{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈsɛtəl" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From a merger of two verbs:\n\nMiddle English setlen, from Old English setlan (“to settle, seat, put to rest”), from Old English setl (“seat”) (compare Dutch zetelen (“to be established, settle”)) and\nMiddle English sahtlen, seihtlen (“to reconcile, calm, subside”), from Old English sahtlian, ġesehtlian (“to reconcile”), from Old English saht, seht (“settlement, agreement, reconciliation, peace”) (see saught, -le).\nGerman siedeln (“to settle”) is related to the former of the two verbs, but is not an immediate cognate of either of them.", "From Middle English settle, setle, setel, setil, seotel, from Old English setl (“that upon which one sits, a seat, a settle, a place to sit”), from Proto-Germanic *setlaz (“a seat; arm-chair”), representing Proto-Indo-European *sed-lo-, from *sed- (“sit”). Cognate with Dutch zetel, German Sessel, Latin sella." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To conclude or resolve (something):", "submean": [ "(transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).\nHis fears were settled\nShe hopes to settle and questions about the plans.\nThe question of the succession to a throne needs to be settled.\n", "(transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.\nto settle a quarrel\n(transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.", "", "(transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.\n", "(transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).\nto settle a bill", "(intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.\nHe has settled with his creditors.", "(intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.\n" ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).\nto settle my affairs\nto settle her estate", "submean": [ "(transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.\n", "(transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).\n", "(Britain, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.", "To kill.\n", "(transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.\nclear weather settles the roads" ] }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.\n\nThe weather settled.\nWait until the crowd settles before speaking.", "submean": [ "(intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.\nThe roads settled late in the spring." ] }, { "mean": "To establish or become established in a steady position:", "submean": [ "(transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.\n", "(transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.\n\n(transitive, US, obsolete) In particular, to establish in pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish.\nto settle a minister", "", "(transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).", "(intransitive) To become married, or a householder.\n", "(intransitive, with \"in\") To be established in a profession or in employment.\n", "(intransitive, usually with \"down\", \"in\", \"on\" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.\n\nThey settled down at an inn.\nThe hawk settled on a branch." ] }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)\nthe Saxons who settled in Britain", "submean": [ "(transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).\nthe French first settled Canada\nthe Puritans settled New England\nPlymouth was settled in 1620.\n" ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place)." }, { "mean": "To sink, or cause (something, or impurities within it) to sink down, especially so as to become clear or compact.", "submean": [ "(transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.\nto settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee", "(transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).\nto settle the sediment out of the water", "(transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.\nto settle the chips in the potato chip bag by shaking it", "(intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.", "(intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.\n", "(intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.\nThe chips in the bag of potato chips settled during shipping.", "(intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. also used figuratively.)\nwine settles by standing" ] }, { "mean": "(intransitive, obsolete) To make a jointure for a spouse." }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(archaic) A seat of any kind.\nc. 1348, Richard Rolle, The Form of Living\nsit on a settle of joy with angels\n1608, Joshua Sylvester, \"The Law\", in Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes\nIf hunger drive the Pagans from their dens,\nOne, 'gainst a settle breaketh both his shins;\n1834, L E L, Francesca Carrara. , volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 110:\"The gloom of those failing embers,\" exclaimed Francesca, \"Has infected us both!\" and, rising from the low settle, she lighted the lamp, and flung some smaller wood on the hearth, and a cheerful blaze kindled at once.\n1878–1880, John Richard Green, A History of the English People:\n Queen or eorl's wife, with a train of maidens, bore ale-bowl or mead-bowl round the hall, from the high settle of king or ealdorman in the midst to the mead benches ranged around its walls, while the gleeman sang the hero-songs" }, { "mean": "(now rare) A long bench with a high back and arms, often with chest or storage space underneath.\n1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Third. The Hostel, or Inn.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: J Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, ; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza III, page 103:Beneath its shade, the place of state, / On oaken settle Marmion sate, / And viewed around the blazing hearth.\n1880, Ellen Murray Beam, English translation of Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier (→ISBN):\nLet us return now to the little girl we left feigning to sleep soundly upon a settle in the kitchen.\n1883 March​, Thomas Hardy, “The Three Strangers”, in Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively, and Commonplace , volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 7:Nineteen persons were gathered here. Of these, John Pitcher, a neighbouring dairyman, the shepherd's father-in-law, lolled in the settle; \n1886, John Williamson Palmer, After His Kind:\nBy the fireside, the big arm-chair fondly cronied with two venerable settles within the chimney corner." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. (Compare a depression.)\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Ezekiel 43:14:And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "settle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911\nsettle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. C. 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