settle

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• Settle

  ·noun A seat of any kind. II. Settle ·vi To make a jointure for a wife. III. Settle ·noun Hence, t...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• to settle

  To knock down or stun any one. We settled the cull by a stroke on his nob; we stunned the fellow by ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to settle

  1) To be ordained or installed over a parish, church, or congregation. A. B. was invited to settle i...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• settle

  a long form, with a back and arms, usually placed in the chimney corner of a farm-house. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Settle, Elkanah

  (1648-1724) Poet and dramatist, ed. at Oxf., was the author of a number of turgid dramas, now unrea...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• to settle one's hash

  To properly punish one. We also say, 'to settle his business;' 'to fix his flint.' Brave Prudhoe tr...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.