Verb

(manag)

To direct or be in charge of.

To handle or control (a situation, job).

To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:

The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].

To succeed at an attempt

* , chapter=7

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis

, title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}

To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

(obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.

(Dryden)

(obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.

(Shakespeare)

Verb

(settl)

To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; especially, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home etc.

* And he settled his countenance steadfastly upon him,until he was ashamed. --2 Kings VIII. 11. (Rev. Ver.)

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(transitive, obsolete, US) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish.

To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to quieten; to still; to calm; to compose.

* (George Chapman)

God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake.

* (John Bunyan)

Hoping that sleep might settle his brains.

To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink

To restore (ground, roads etc.) or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition

To cause to sink; to lower

To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from uncertainty

* (Jonathan Swift)

It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful.

To pacify (a discussion, quarrel).

(archaic) To adjust (accounts); to liquidate; to balance.

(colloquial) To pay.

to settle a bill

To colonize; to move people to (a land or territory).

To become fixed, permanent or stationary; to establish one's self or itself

* (Francis Bacon)

The wind came about and settled in the west.

* (John Arbuthnot)

Chyleruns through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.

To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home.

To become married, or a householder.

* (Matthew Prior)

As people marry now and settle .

To be established in a profession or in employment.

To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.

To become clear after being unclear or vague

* (Joseph Addison)

A government, on such occasions, is always thick before it settles .

To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, for example dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.

To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.

To become calm; to stop being agitated

* (William Shakespeare)

Till the fury of his highness settle , Come not before him.

To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement.

(obsolete) To make a jointure for a wife.

* (Samuel Garth)

He sighs with most success that settles well.