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generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.

a certain rank, without deductions. -- Half pay. See under Half. -- Pay day, the day of settlement of accounts. -- Pay dirt (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U.S.] -- Pay office, a place where payment is made. -- Pay roll, a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts du…

That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.

Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. "Adamantine chains and penal fire." Milton. Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment. -- Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibited certain acts, and imposing penalties for commi…

A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.

To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost. Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. Shak.

The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction, which has been induced. If the general persuasion of all men does so account it. Hooker. My firm persuasion is, at least sometimes, That Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention. Cowper.

me to him." Sir P. Sidney. Thy mother was a piece of virtue. Shak. His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world. Coleridge. a piece of cake, a task easily accomplished. a piece of work, a disparaging term for a person considered to have an excess of some undesirable quality; esp. difficult or ecc…

he one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in

e shrub itself; -- called also Pinxter blomachee by the New York descendants of the Dutch settlers.

To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight. The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch. Mortimer.

or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown. Shak.

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. Planting of countries like planting of woods. Bacon.

An original settlement in a new country; a colony. While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. B. Trumbull.

The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state.

Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration. [R.] "A political government." Evelyn.

Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak.

tate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance. Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. Luke xv. 12.

Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws. In laws, that which is natural bindeth universally; that which is positive, not so. Hooker.

Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. Kent.