noun fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
2. settlement ·noun the act of setting, or the state of being settled.
3. settlement ·noun matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
4. settlement ·noun that which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed.
5. settlement ·noun a colony newly established; a place or region newly settled; as, settlement in the west.
6. settlement ·noun establishment in life, in business, condition, ·etc.; ordination or installation as pastor.
7. settlement ·noun bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction; the act of giving or conferring anything in a formal and permanent manner.
8. settlement ·noun 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.
9. settlement ·noun 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.
10. settlement ·noun 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 ·noun 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.
12. settlement ·noun 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.
13. settlement ·noun 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.