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Settledness
- - The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state.
Settlements
- noun - a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris"
- a community of people smaller than a town
- a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it
- an area where a group of families live together
- something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
- termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities
- the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"
Sex Linkage
- noun - an association between genes in sex chromosomes that makes some characteristics appear more frequently in one sex than in the other
Sex-Limited
- adjective - relating to characteristics that are expressed differently in the two sexes
Shallowness
- noun - lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
- the quality of lacking physical depth; "take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive"
Shell Shock
- noun - a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare
Shellac Wax
- noun - a hard wax separated from shellac by its insolubility in alcohol
Shellacking
- verb - Slang
a. To strike repeatedly and severely; batter.
b. To defeat decisively.
c. an utter defeat.
d. a sound thrashing.
- cover with shellac; "She wanted to shellac the desk to protect it from water spots"
Shellfishes
- noun - invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
- meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
Shellflower
- noun - cultivated for its shining oblong leaves and arching clusters of white flowers with pink shading and crinkled yellow lips with variegated magenta stripes
- showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple