Emily Dickinson Lexicon

setting, n. [ON 'sixth part'.] (webplay: apart, best, contemn, eyes, faces, infinite, lover, man, natural, sea, sea, stone, sun, power, put, separate, standing, sportsmen, stone, sun).

Going down; sinking towards the horizon, as the sun; [fig.] decline; ending; nearing death.

settle (-d, -s), v. [OE 'seat, place of rest'.] (webplay: accounts, adjust, before, cease, change, child, colors, differences, firmly, frost, house, inhabitants, just, life, limited, mind, motion, natural, paid, place, possession, runs, short, sighs, spring, succession, suffer, thick, thoughts, time, town, tranquilize, uncertain, waver, way, west).

1. Cease from migration; stop wandering; adopt a fixed place of residence.
2. Lodge; come to rest.
3. Colonize; people; furnish with inhabitants.
4. Balance; adjust an account by a money payment.

settlement, n. [see settle, v.] (webplay: before, house, inhabitants, place, town).

Colony; small town established in a new place.

settler (-s), n. [see settle, v.] (webplay: before, house, inhabitants, mind, period, place, residence, rudiments).

Pioneer; colonizer; person who fixes permanent residence in a new place.

seven, adj. [OE seofon.]

The cardinal number next after six, represented by the symbols 7, VII, vii.

seven, n. [see seven, adj.]

seventeenth, adj. [OE.]

The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal seventeen; qualifying a n. expressed or implied.

seventy, adj. [OE.]

The cardinal number equal to seven tens, represented by 70 or lxx; length of a human life.

several, adj. [AFr < L. 'separate, distinct'.]

Different; particular; position, existence, or status apart.

severally, adj. [see several, adj.]

Separately, individually; each of a number of persons or things by himself or itself; each successively or in turn.