settled 
This outward-sainted deputy, 
Whose settled visage and deliberate word 
Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth emmew. 
Shak., M. for M., iii. t. 90. 
U liy do you eye me 
With such a settled look? 
Fletcher, Valentinian, iii. 8. 
I observed a settled melancholy in her countenance. 
Addition, Omens. 
3. Quiet ; orderly ; steady : as, he now leads a 
xi-ttlcd, life. 
Mercy on me ! he 's greatly altered and seems to have 
a settled married look ! Sheridan, School for Scandal, ii. 3. 
4. Sober; grave. 
Youth no less becomes 
The light and careless livery that it wears 
Than settled age his sables and his weeds. 
Shak., Hamlet, iv. 7.81. 
settled 2 (set'ld), p. a. [Pp. of settle?, r.] Ar- 
ranged or adjusted by agreement, payment, or 
otherwise : as, a settled account. 
settledness (set'ld-nes), . The state of being 
settled, in any sense of the word. 
We cannot but imagine the great mixture of innocent 
disturbances and holy passions that, in the first address 
of the angel, did . . . discompose her settledness. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 27. 
When ... we have attained to a settledness of disposi- 
tion . . . our life is labour. 
/.'/'. Ball, Occasional Meditations, 67. 
settlement 1 (set'1-ment), n. [< settle 1 + -mcnt. 
Cf. settlement?.] 1. 'The act of settling, or the 
state of being settled. 
I went to Deptford, where I made preparation for my 
settlement, no more intending to go out of England, but 
endeavour a settl'd life. Evelyn, Diary, March 9, 1652. 
(a) Establishment in life ; especially, establishment in a 
business or profession or in the married state. 
Every man living has a design in his head upon wealth, 
power, or settlement in the world. Sir R. L' Estrange. 
(6) The act of colonizing or peopling ; colonization : as, 
the settlement of a new country. 
The settlement of Oriental colonies in Greece produced 
no sensible effect on the character either of the language 
or the nation. W. Mure, Lit of Greece, I. v. 1. 
The laws and representative institutions of England 
were first introduced into the New World in the settlement 
of Virginia. 
J. R. Green, Short Hist. Eug. People, viii. 4. 
(c) The ordination or installation of a minister over a 
church or congregation. [Colloq.] (d) Adjustment of af- 
fairs, as the public affairs of a nation, with special refer- 
ence to questions of succession to the throne, relations of 
church and state, etc. ; also, the state of affairs as thus ad- 
justed. Compare the phrase Act of Settlement, below. 
Owning ... no religion but primitive, no rule but 
Scripture, no law but right reason. For the rest, always 
conformable to the present settlement, without any sort of 
singularity. Ecelyn, To Dr. Wotton, March 30, 1696. 
2. In law : (a) The conveyance of property or 
the creation of estates therein to make future 
provision for one or more beneficiaries, usually 
of the family of the creator of the settlement, 
in such manner as to secure to them different 
interests, or to secure their expectancies in a 
different manner, from what would be done by 
a mere conveyance or by the statutes of descent 
and distribution. (See strict.) Thus, a marriage 
settlement is usually a gift or conveyance to a wife or in- 
tended wife, or to trustees for her benefit or that of her- 
self for life and her husband or children or both after her, 
in consideration of which she waives her right to claim 
dower or to succeed to his property on his death. 
An agreement to make a marriage settlement shall be 
decreed in equity after the marriage, though it was to be 
made before the marriage. 
Blackstone, Com., I. xv., note 29. 
Mr. Casaubon's behaviour about settlements was highly 
satisfactory to Mr. Brooke, and the preliminaries of mar- 
riage rolled smoothly along. 
George Eliot, Middleman;!), ix. 
(6) A bestowing or granting under legal sanc- 
tion ; the act of 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, tr. of Idylls of Theocritus, xxvii. 
3. A settled place of abode; residence; a right 
arising out of residence ; legal residence or es- 
tablishment of a person in a particular parish 
or town, which entitles him to maintenance if 
a pauper, and pledges the parish or town to his 
support. 
They'll pass you on to your settlement, Missis, with all 
speed. You're not in a state to be let come upon strange 
parishes 'ceptin' as a Casual. 
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, iii. 8. 
4. A tract of country newly peopled or settled ; 
a colony, especially a colony in its earlier 
stages : as, the British settlements in Australia ; 
a back settlement. 
Raleigh . . . now determined to send emigrants with 
wives and families, who should make their homes in the 
New W orld ; and ... he granted a charter of incorpora- 
tion for the settlement. Bancroft, Hist. U. S. I 83 
5530 
5. In sparsely settled regions of the United 
(States, especially in the South, a small village, 
as opposed to scattered houses. 
There was a dealing of ten acres, a blacksmith's shop, 
four log huts facing indiscriminately in any direction, a 
snmll store of one story and one room, and a new frame 
court-house, whitewashed and inclosed by a plank fence. 
In the last session of the legislature, the Settlement had 
been made the county-seat of a new county ; the addi- 
tional honor of a name had been conferred upon it, but as 
yet it was known among the population of the mountains 
by its time-honored and accustomed title [i. e., the Settle- 
ment}. M. S. ilurfree. In the Tennessee Mountains, p. 91. 
6f. That which settles or subsides; sediment; 
dregs; lees; settlings. 
The waters (of the ancient baths) are very hot at the 
sources ; they have no particular taste, but by a red set- 
tlement on the stones, and by a yellow scum on the top of 
the water, I concluded that there is in them both iron 
and sulphur. Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 41. 
7. In building, etc., a subsidence or sinking, 
as of a wall or part of a wall, or the effect of 
such subsidence, often producing a cracked or 
unstable condition, binding or disadjustment 
of doors or shutters, etc. 8. A sum of money 
formerly allowed to a pastor in addition to his 
regular salary. [U. S.] 
Before the war began, my people punctually paid my 
salary, and advanced one hundred pounds of my settle- 
ment a year before it was due by contract. 
Rev. Xath. Emmons, Autobiography. (Bartlett.) 
9. A pastor's homestead as furnished by a 
parish, by a gift either of land, with or with- 
out buildings, or of money to be applied for its 
purchase. [U. S.] 
I had just purchased a settlement and Involved myself 
in debt. Hev. A'otA. Emmons, Autobiography. {Bartlett.) 
Act Of Settlement. Same as Limitation of the Crown 
Act (which see, under limitation). Disposition and 
settlement. See disposition. Family settlement, in 
Eng. law, the arrangement now used instead of entail, by 
which land is transferred in such manner as to secure it's 
being kept in the family for a considerable period, usually 
by giving it to one child, commonly the eldest son, for his 
life, and then to his sons and their issue if he have any, 
and on failure of issue then to the second son of the settlor 
for his life, and then to his sons, and so on. Under such 
a settlement a son to whom the land is given for life, and 
his son on coming of age, can together convey an absolute 
title and thus part with the family estates. 
settlement' 2 (set'1-ment), n. [< settle? + -meat.'] 
The act or process of determining or deciding; 
the removal or reconciliation of differences or 
doubts ; the liquidation of a claim or account ; 
adjustment; arrangement: as, the settlement of 
a controversy; the settlement of a debt. 
Taking the paper from before his kinsman, he [Bob 
Roy) threw it in the fire. Bailie Jarvie stared in his turn, 
but his kinsman continued "That 's a Hieland settlement 
of accounts." Scott, Rob Roy, xxxiv. 
Ring settlement. Seerinj/i. 
settler 1 (set'ler), M. [< settle 1 + -cr 1 .] 1. One 
who settles; particularly, one who fixes his 
residence in a new colony. 
The vigor and courage displayed by the settlers on the 
Connecticut, in this first Indian war in New England, 
struck terror into the savages. 
Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 316. 
2. A separator; a tub, pan, vat, t>r tank in 
which a separation can be effected by settling, 
(a) In metal,, a tub for separating the quicksilver and 
amalgam from the pulp in the Washoe process (which see, 
under pani, 3). (6) In the manufacture of chlorin and 
bleaching-powders, a tank for the separation of calcium 
sulphate and iron oxid from the neutral solution of man- 
ganese chlorid after treatment of acid manganese chlorid 
with sodium carbonate, or one in which the manganese 
peroxid formed by the treatment of the neutral manganese 
chlorid with milk of lime settles in the form of thin black- 
mud. The former is technically called a chlorid of man- 
ganese settler, and the latter the mud settler. Settlers' 
clock. Same as laughing jackass (which see, under jack- 
settler 2 (set'ler), n. [< settle* + -er 1 .] That 
which settles or decides anything definitely; 
that which gives a quietus: as, that argument 
was a settler; his last blow was a settler. [Col- 
loq.] 
settling 1 (set'ling), n. [Verbal n. of settle 1 , r.] 
1. The act of one who or that which settles, in 
any sense of that word. 2. pi. Lees; dregs; 
sediment. 
Winter Yellow Cotton Seed Oil, to pass as prime, must 
be brilliant, free from water and settlings. 
New York Produce Exchange Report, 1888-9, p. 292. 
settling' 2 (set'ling), n. [< ME. sagtlyng; verbal 
n. of settle 2 , r.] Reconciliation. 
Ho [the dove] brogt in hir beke a bronch of olyue, . . . 
That wats the syngne of sauyt^ that sende hem oure lorde, 
& the sagtlyng of hymself with tho sely besteg. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 490. 
settling-day (set'ling-da), n. A day set apart 
for the settling of accounts ; specifically, in the 
stock-exchange, the fortnightly account-day for 
shares and stocks. 
seven 
settlor (set'lor), n. [< settle'* + -or 1 . Cf. set- 
tler 2 .] In lair, the person who makes a settle- 
ment. 
set-to (set'to'), . A sharp contest; especial- 
ly, a fight at fisticuffs; a pugilistic encounter; 
a boxing-match; also, any similar contest, as 
with foils. [Slang.] 
They hurried to be present at the expected scene, with 
the alacrity of gentlemen of the fancy hastening to a set-to. 
Scott, St. Konan's Well, xxx. 
As prime a set-to 
And regular turn-up as ever you knew. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 317. 
set-trap (set'trap), n. A trap which works with 
a spring or other device to be released and set 
in operation by means of a 1 trigger, the animal 
being caught when the trap is sprung. Most 
traps are of this description. 
setula (set'u-lii), n. ; pi. setulee (-le). [NL., dim. 
of L. xftn. MM, a bristle: see seta.] A small 
seta ; a little bristle ; a setule. 
setule (set'iil), . [< NL. sctvla : see setnlii. \ 
A setula. 
setuliform (set'u-li-form), . [< NL. setula, a 
setule, + L. forma, form.] In hot., having the 
form of a setule, or little bristle ; filamentous ; 
thready. 
setulose (set'u-los), . [< setule + --.] Finely 
setose; covered with setules. 
set-up (set'up), n. 1. Build; bearing; carriage. 
[Colloq.] 
They (English soldiers] have a set-vp not to be found in 
any of the soldiers of the Continental armies. 
T. C. Crawford, English Life, p. 147. 
2. In metal., the steam-ram of the squeezer, 
which operates on the ball of iron from the 
puddling-f urnace. It serves to upset or condense the 
bloom longitudinally after it has been lengthened by the 
action of the squeezer. 
3. In bakiny, one of the wooden scantlings 
placed like a frame around the loaves in the 
oven to hold them in position. E. H. Knight. 
4. A favorable arrangement of the balls in 
billiards, croquet, etc., especially when left so 
by one player forthe next. 5. Atreat. [Slang, 
U. S.l 
setwall (set'wal), n. [Formerly also setywatt; 
< ME. setwale, setewale, setuale, cetewale, setwaly, 
also sedwalc, nedewale, seduale, valerian, zedo- 
ary, < AF. cetewale, OF. citoual, citoal, citouart, 
F. zedoaire (> E. zedoary), < ML. sedoaria (AS. 
sidewarc), < Pers. zadwar, zidwar, also jadtcar, 
zedoary: see zedoary, another E. form of the 
same name.] A name early transferred from 
the Oriental drug zedoary to the valerian. The 
root was highly popular for its sanatory properties, mixed 
with many dishes to make them wholesome. The original 
species was Valeriana Pyrenaica, a plant cultivated in 
gardens, now naturalized in parts of Great Britain. Lat- 
terly the name has been understood of the common offi- 
cinal valerian, V. ojficinalis. 
Set-work (set' werk), H. 1. In plastering, two- 
coat work on lath. 2. In boat-building, the 
construction of dories and larger boats in which 
the streaks do not lap, but join edge to edge, 
and are secured by battens upon the inside of 
the boat. See lapsireak. 
seurementt, . bee surement. 
seurtet, seureteet, Obsolete variants of 
surety. 
sevadllla, . A variant of cevadilla. 
seven (sev'n), a. and n. [Early mod. E. also 
geaven; < ME. seven, sevene, seoven, seofen, sere, 
seove, seofe, < AS. seofon, seofone = OS. sibun, 
sivun = OFries. soven, saven, savn, siugun, sigun, 
sogen = MD. seven, D. zeven = MLG. LG. seven 
= OHG. sibun, MHG. siben, G. sieben = Icel. 
sjau, mod. sjo = Svr.sju Dan. syv = Goth. sibun 
= L. septem ( > It. sette = Sp. siete = Pg. sele, sette 
= Pr. set = OF. set, sept, F. sept) = Gr. <?nrd = W. 
saith = Gael. seachd=Ir. seacht, seven, = OBulg. 
sebd- in "sebdmu, sedrnii, seventh, sedmi, seven, 
= Bohem. se dm = Pol. siedm = ORuss. seme, 
sedmi, Russ. semi = Lith. septini = Lett, septini 
= Zend hapta = Skt. saptan, seven: ulterior 
origin unknown.] I. a. One more than six; 
the sum of three and four: a cardinal numer- 
al. Seven is a rare number in metrology, perhaps its 
only occurrences being in the seven handbreadths of the 
Egyptian cubit (for the probable explanation of which, see 
cubit), and in the seven days of the week, certainly early 
connected, at least, with the astrological assignment of the 
hours in regular rotation to the seven planets. This as- 
trological association explains the identification by Pytha- 
goras of the number seven with the opportune time (xai- 
pos), as well as the fact that light was called seven by the 
Pythagoreans. That they termed it " motherless " may be 
due to the " seven spirits " of the Chaldeans that is, the 
planets being called ' fatherless and motherless." The 
astrological association further explains why the number 
seven has so frequently been suggested by the concep- 
tion of divine or spiritual influence, and why it was 
