Index of English words, starting with "se"

(1) - Settee (n.) A vessel with a very long, sharp prow, carrying two or three masts with lateen sails, -- used in the Mediterranean.
(2) - Settee (n.) A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.

(1) - Setter (v. t.) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
(2) - Setter (n.) A shallow seggar for porcelain.
(3) - Setter (n.) An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.
(4) - Setter (n.) One who adapts words to music in composition.
(5) - Setter (n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.
(6) - Setter (n.) A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.
(7) - Setter (n.) One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.

(1) - Setting (n.) That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.
(2) - Setting (n.) Something set in, or inserted.
(3) - Setting (n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.
(4) - Setting (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
(5) - Setting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Set

(1) - Settle (n.) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.
(2) - Settle (n.) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.
(3) - Settle (n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.
(4) - Settle (n.) To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.
(5) - Settle (n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.
(6) - Settle (n.) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.
(7) - Settle (n.) To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.
(8) - Settle (n.) To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
(9) - Settle (n.) To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.
(10) - Settle (n.) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.
(11) - Settle (n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.
(12) - Settle (n.) A seat of any kind.
(13) - Settle (n.) Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.
(14) - Settle (v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.
(15) - Settle (v. i.) To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.
(16) - Settle (v. i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.
(17) - Settle (v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.
(18) - Settle (v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.
(19) - Settle (v. i.) 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.
(20) - Settle (v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.
(21) - Settle (v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.
(22) - Settle (v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.
(23) - Settle (v. i.) To become calm; to cease from agitation.
(24) - Settle (v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.
(25) - Settle (n.) To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.

(1) - Settlement (n.) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of residence; legal residence or establishment of a person in a particular parish or town, which entitles him to maintenance if a pauper, and subjects the parish or town to his support.
(2) - Settlement (n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
(3) - Settlement (n.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material.
(4) - Settlement (n.) That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary.
(5) - Settlement (n.) A colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the West.
(6) - Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
(7) - Settlement (n.) That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
(8) - Settlement (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.
(9) - Settlement (n.) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
(10) - Settlement (n.) The act or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.
(11) - Settlement (n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled; act of planting, as a colony; colonization; occupation by settlers; as, the settlement of a new country.
(12) - Settlement (n.) Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
(13) - Settlement (n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled.