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Settlings

noun
1.
Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.  Synonym: dregs.



Settling

noun
1.
A gradual sinking to a lower level.  Synonyms: subsidence, subsiding.






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"Settlings" Quotes from Famous Books



... signal to make that unanimous dive which surely is a little conventional—like the strange rustlings and settlings and clearings of throats and noses, which are never dispensed with, at certain points of the Church service, and are never held to be necessary under any other circumstances. In a minute more it is all over, and the organ expresses itself to be as glad of it as it can be of anything in its ...
— The Uncommercial Traveller • Charles Dickens

... pour the juice, clear from the settlings, through a hair sieve (without squeezing the mushrooms), into a clean stewpan; let it boil very gently for half an hour. Those who are for superlative ketchup, will continue the boiling till the mushroom ...
— A Poetical Cook-Book • Maria J. Moss



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