to settle

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

1) To be ordained or installed over a parish, church, or congregation. A. B. was invited to settle in the first society at New Haven. N. D. settled in the ministry very young.--Webster.

2) To liquidate an account; to pay a debt. A sense of the word not given in the English dictionaries, but very common among our merchants and traders. On board our steamboats it is customary, soon after leaving the wharf, for one of the waiters to go about ringing a bell and crying out, 'Passengers what hain't paid their fare, will please step up to the Captain's office and settle.'

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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.