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settlings





NOUN
silt
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Bubeyev’s defense claimed that the privacy settlings on his account made the articles he shared available only to him and his 12 friends.

From Washington Times May 31, 2016

Take the powder and put it on a test, and add thereto the powder from the settlings from which the aqua forte has been made, and add lead.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Yet sometimes sudden settlings, accompanied by more or less extended earthquakes, must have visibly altered local landscapes.

From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling

Fix'd in the slime they say: 'Sad once were we In the sweet air made gladsome by the sun, Carrying a foul and lazy mist within: Now in these murky settlings are we sad.'

From The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 04 by Cary, Henry Francis

Moreover, this group forms the industrial reservoir which receives the settlings of the most recent European and Asiatic immigration.

From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Orth, Samuel Peter




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