SETTLEDNESS
SET'TLEDNESS, noun The state of being settled; confirmed state. [Little used.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SETTLEMENT
SET'TLEMENT, noun1. The act of settling, the state of being settled.2. The falling of the foul of foreign matter of liquors to the bottom; subsidence.3. The matter that subsides...
SETTLING
SET'TLING, participle present tense Placing; fixing; establishing; regulating; adjusting; planting or colonizing; subsiding; composing; ordaining or installing; becoming the pas...
SETWALL
SET'WALL, noun [set and wall.] A plant. The garden setwall is a species of Valeriana.
SEVEN
SEVEN, adjectivesev'n [L. septem.] Four and three; one more than six or less than eight. Seven days constitute a week. We read in Scripture of seven years of plenty, and seven y...
SEVENFOLD
SEV'ENFOLD, adjective [seven and fold.] Repeated seven times; doubled seven times; increased to seven times the size or amount; as the sevenfold shield of Ajax; sevenfold rage.S...
SEVENNIGHT
SEV'ENNIGHT, noun [seven and night.] A week; the period of seven days and nights; or the time from one day of the week to the next day of the same denomination preceding or foll...
SEVENSCORE
SEV'ENSCORE, noun [seven and score, twenty notches or marks.] Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty.The old countess of Desmond, who lived sevenscore years, dentized ...
SEVENTEEN
SEV'ENTEEN, adjective [seven-ten.] Seven and ten.
SEVENTEENTH
SEV'ENTEENTH, adjective [from seventeen.] The ordinal of seventeen; the seventh after the tenth.On the seventeenth day of the second month- all the fountains of the great deep w...
SEVENTH
SEV'ENTH, adjective1. The ordinal of seven; the first after the sixth.On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work...
SEVENTHLY
SEV'ENTHLY, adverb In the seventh place.
SEVENTIETH
SEV'ENTIETH, adjective [from seventy.] The ordinal of seventy; as a man in the seventieth year of his age. The seventieth year begins immediately after the close of the sixth-ni...
SEVENTY
SEV'ENTY, adjective [Gr. ten.] Seven times ten.That he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.Daniel 9:2.SEV'ENTY, noun The Septuagint or seventy transla...
SEVER
SEV'ER, verb transitive [There may be a doubt whether sever is derived from the Latin separo. Heb. Ch. Syr. Ar. to break.]1. To part or divide by violence; to separate by partin...
SEVERAL
SEV'ERAL, adjective [from several.]1. Separate; distinct; not common to two or more; as a several fishery; a several estate. A several fishery is one held by the owner of the so...
SEVERALITY
SEVERAL'ITY, noun Each particular singly taken; distinction. [Not in use.]
SEVERALIZE
SEV'ERALIZE, verb transitive To distinguish. [Not in use.]
SEVERALLY
SEV'ERALLY, adverb Separately; distinctly; apart from others. Call the men severally by name.I could not keep my eye steady on them severally so as to number them.Newton.To be j...
SEVERALTY
SEV'ERALTY, noun A state of separation from the rest, or from all others. An estate in severalty, is that which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in intere...
SEVERANCE
SEV'ERANCE, noun Separation; the act of dividing or disuniting. The sevrance of a jointure is make by destroying the unity of interest. Thus when there are two joint-tenants for...
SEVERE
SEVE'RE, adjective [Latin severus.]1. Rigid; harsh; not mild or indulgent; as severe words; severe treatment; severe wrath.2. Sharp; hard rigorous.Let your zeal-be more severe a...
SEVERELY
SEVE'RELY, adverb1. Harshly; sharply; as, the chide one severely.2. Strictly; rigorously; as, to judge one severely.To be or fondly or severely kind. Savage.3. With extreme rigo...
SEVERITE
SEV'ERITE, noun A mineral found near St. Sever, in France, occurring in small masses, white without luster, a little harder than lithomarge.
SEVERITY
SEVER'ITY, noun [Latin sveritas.]1. Harshness; rigor; austerity; want of mildness or indulgence; as the severity of a reprimand or reproof.2. Rigor; extreme strictness; as the s...
SEVRUGA
SEVRU'GA, noun A fish, the accipenser stellatus.
SEW
SEW, To follow. [Not used. See Sue.]SEW, verb transitive pronounced so, and better written soe. To unite or fasten together with a needle and thread.They sewed fig leaves togeth...