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Answer for the clue "Snugly settled ", 9 letters:
ensconced

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Word definitions for ensconced in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 place in a secure environment. 2 settle comfortably. v (en-past of: ensconce )

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ensconce \En*sconce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ensconced ; imp. & p. p. Ensconcing .] To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal. She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras. --Shak.

Usage examples of ensconced.

The patterns he had learned were safely ensconced in the neural tendrils of his fixed memory He probably could learn to use them.

Floss, safely ensconced behind the "bar," dealt capably with the flow of customers and ignored the laughs and remarks from the idlers gathered at Eric's office.

What would her life have been like with Drake Bonneau, happily ensconced on his lake?

He was having a little difficulty himself, adjusting to the fact that they were safely ensconced on Rrala, and that the Hrrubans were back for good.

We had few advantages over the heavyworlders to begin with, and have fewer now that they're completely ensconced in terrain we haven't seen.

There I was happily ensconced on one of the better-run cruisers in Fleet, with a woman commander of considerable personal ah .

And before they get there, your mother and sisters will be safely ensconced elsewhere and under my protection.

He blinked energetically, and the points of light around him became ensconced torches, and the pale oval of Plennafrey's face.

Then her eyes dropped slightly to admire Orlith, ensconced right above the main hold door, and she thought how well Orlith's golden hide complimented the window hangings on the top tier.

Pol and Sal ensconced themselves on bales for a comfortable chat with Dag, politely declining the invitation to see the finished serum.

Jaxom waited in the Great Courtyard until he saw Ruth safely ensconced, and then he sought Lytol.

Sebell said, nodding to Asgenar, who was ensconced in one of the armchairs.

Tiroth, ensconced on the grassy sward before the hold, blinked orange-laced eyes until he and brown Folrath identified each other.

All of which meant that Lorana was glad to be able to see her marvelous friend happily ensconced on her freshly built bed of warm sand, curling up for a good after-food and after-grooming nap.

Philippa said over the top of the needlework she was stitching, ensconced in a wing chair beside the library fire.