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The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.

That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.

The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.

That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment.

The act of adjusting; a planting or colonizing; subsidence.

The act of making a settlement; a colonising; an adjustment of difference.

n. Act of making a settlement;- act of subsiding, as lees;-adjustment of differences; -act of liquidating, as accounts and debts; -contraction or hardening, as of building materials; - pi. Lees; dregs; sediment.