Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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. Locate; get situated; cease migrating; 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.