3. To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
As people marry now and settle.
Prior. 4. To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
5. To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as,
the roads settled late in the spring.
6. To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as,
the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles.
Addison. 7. To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
8. To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
9. To become calm; to cease from agitation.
Till the fury of his highness settle,
Come not before him.
Shak. 10. To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
11. To make a jointure for a wife.
He sighs with most success that settles well.
Garth.