Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-SET'TLED
UN-SET'TLED, pp.
- Unfixed; unhinged; rendered fluctuating.
- adj. Not settled; not fixed; not determined; as doctrine, questions, opinions and the like.
- Not established. Dryden.
- Not regular; unequal; changeable; as, an unsettled season; unsettled weather. Bentley.
- Not having a legal settlement in a town or parish.
- Having no fixed place of abode. Hooker.
- Not having deposited its fecal matter; turbid; as, settled liquor.
- Having no inhabitants; not occupied by permanent inhabitants; as, unsettled lands in America. Belknap. Hamilton.
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