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S — Serenity to Severity (Part 10 of 13)

    3. Arranged, adjusted.
    4. Quiet, orderly, methodical.
    5. Established, ordinary, common, wonted, usual, customary, every-day.

Settlement, n.

    1. Adjustment, arrangement.
    2. Reconciliation, pacification.
    3. Liquidation, payment, discharge.
    4. Colonization.
    5. Colony.
    6. Ordination, installation, establishment, fixture.

Settle on.

    1. Fix on, fix upon, determine on.
    2. Establish one’s habitation upon.

Settler, n. Colonist.

Settling, n.

    1. Planting, colonizing.
    2. Subsidence.

Settlings, n. pl. Lees, dregs, sediment.

Set the hand to. Undertake, engage in.

Set the heart upon. Long for earnestly, fix one’s desires upon.

Set-to, n. (Colloq.) Fight, combat, contest, conflict.

Set to rights. Adjust, regulate, put in order, put to rights.