Settle

His fears were settled

She hopes to settle any questions about the plans.

The question of the succession to a throne needs to be settled.

It is a Pamphlet, [...] It will ſettle the Wavering, confirm the Doubtful, inſtruct the Ignorant, inflame the Clamorous, though it never be once looked into.

to settle a quarrel

The coffee was only surface wet and looked worse than it actually was and as he returned to the Reception Desk to settle his account and give back his room key, he was met again by the young man who was still wearing his rucksack.

to settle a bill

He has settled with his creditors.

Of course, certainty is a value in all systems of conflict of laws—including those of the United States. Certainty for litigants decreases litigation and transaction costs and increases the chances that cases will settle.

to settle my affairs

to settle her estate

The curate settled his collar, coughed, and, making an effort, knocked.

She twisted out from under the claim of his palm to settle her feet on the floor.

Pausing only to settle his cloak and set his Regent's circlet on his hair, he strode to the rail and waited.

God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake, / And Tenedos we reach'd; [...]

[I]t drawing towards night, and they hoping that ſleep might ſettle his brains, with all haſt they got him to bed; [...]

I poured a charge of powder over the nipple so as not tu miss goin' off if possible. Click! went the match,—up jumped the flock, or tried tu. As they bunched up, Peggy blazed intu 'em, settlin’ how many I didn't know, …

clear weather settles the roads

The weather settled.

Wait until the crowd settles before speaking.

[T]il the fury of his Highneſſe ſettle / Come not before him.

With Vardy working tirelessly up front, chasing lost causes and generally making a nuisance of himself, Sevilla were never allowed to settle on a night when the atmosphere was electric inside the King Power Stadium.

The roads settled late in the spring.

And he settled his countenance stedfastly [upon him], until he was ashamed.

Now thirteen Years of Age were ſwiftly run, / When the fond Father thought the time drew on / Of ſettling in the World his only Son.

But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever.

to settle a minister

He sighs with most success that settles well.

As People marry now, and ſettle; / Fierce Love abates his uſual Mettle: [...]

He is settled in the profession of law at Rochester, New York.

Following his avowed aim to settle in his profession of medicine, Sloane arranged to call on Dr Thomas Sydenham, the foremost physician of his day in London, known as 'the English Hippocrates'.

The likely explanation for this is the fact that between the two groups one is now settling in the profession while the older group is preparing to retire and are no longer keen to gain new skills.

But then the Wind came about, and ſetled in the West for many dayes, ſo as we could make little or no way, and were ſometimes in purpoſe to turne backe.

Chyle [...] runs through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.

They settled down at an inn.

The hawk settled on a branch.

the Saxons who settled in Britain

The British could identify very few ‘village elders’ in the colony. The reason was that the majority of the Chinese in Hong Kong were male immigrants with no village to which to attach themselves. They tended to settle in an area known as Sheung Wan (the Upper Bay) on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island.

the French first settled Canada

the Puritans settled New England

Plymouth was settled in 1620.

It was in the year 1794, that an English family went out to settle in Canada.

Rome began to settle displaced or disenfranchised citizens, veterans, and allies in colonies beyond Italy.

to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee

to settle the sediment out of the water

to settle the chips in the potato chip bag by shaking it

Sometimes a tub will settle at one corner, causing the rim to slope.

The chips in the bag of potato chips settled during shipping.

wine settles by standing

Some mares do not show signs of being in heat even when tried ("teased") regularly with a stallion, but they often can be settled either by natural or artificial service, provided the approximate time of ovulation is determined and they are not suffering from either a diseased or abnormal condition of the reproductive system.

During March, 1926, two more mares were bred to him and on February 14, 1927 one of them foaled a perfectly formed bay stud foal. It is not known whether or not the other mare settled for she was never returned for trial.

This older mare created many, many problems for us in terms of trying to get the mare to settle. She came to us in January, and her record shows fairly consistent heats, but she had numerous problems which will be outlined in Example l0.

Those sperm may still be viable, enabling the stallion to settle mares for a while until he runs out of mature sperm and has no more coming on because of the gap in production while he was sick or injured.

However, even a stallion with low volume, poor-quality semen, if properly managed, can adequately settle mares.

There are several kinds of hormones available that may help your mare to settle properly in case she is difficult to get in foal.

sit on a settle of joy with angels

If hunger drive the Pagans from their dens, One, 'gainst a settle breaketh both his shins;

"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.

[The] 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

Beneath its shade, the place of state, / On oaken settle Marmion sate, / And viewed around the blazing hearth.

Let us return now to the little girl we left feigning to sleep soundly upon a settle in the kitchen.

Nineteen persons were gathered here. Of these, […] John Pitcher, a neighbouring dairyman, the shepherd's father-in-law, lolled in the settle; […]

By the fireside, the big arm-chair […] fondly cronied with two venerable settles within the chimney corner.

And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit.