Gather v. t. (past & past part. gathered; pres. part. gathering)
1.
To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate. "And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry.""When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together."
2.
To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck. "A rose just gathered from the stalk.""Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?""Gather us from among the heathen."
3.
To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. "He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.""To pay the creditor... he must gather up money by degrees."
4.
To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle. "Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand."
5.
To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. "Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before."
6.
To gain; to win. (Obs.) "He gathers ground upon her in the chase."
7.
(Arch.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
8.
(Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
To be gathered to one's people or To be gathered to one's fathers to die.
To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest.
To gather one's self together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
To gather way (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.
Gather v. i.
1.
To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. "When small humors gather to a gout.""Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes."
2.
To grow larger by accretion; to increase. "Their snowball did not gather as it went."
3.
To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
4.
To collect or bring things together. "Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed."
... the Indian savages draw their fish from the river; and that river afterwards full of great ships from all the world, which in his youth had nothing bigger than a canoe; and on the same spot, where he had so often gathered huckleberries, he saw their magnificent city hall erected, and that hall filled with legislators, astonishing the world with their wisdom and virtue. He also saw the first treaty ratified between the united powers of America, ... — The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, Issue 267, August 4, 1827 • Various Read full book for free!
... quite annoyed me that I do not clearly understand yours and Prof. Cope's views (254/1. Prof. Cope's views may be gathered from his "Origin of the Fittest" 1887; in this book (page 41) is reprinted his "Origin of Genera" from the "Proc. Philadelph. Acad. Nat. Soc." 1868, which was published separately by the author in 1869, and which we believe to be his first publication on ... — More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin Read full book for free!
... Ruan, and in the grey of the dawning, when, with the aid of parson and lawyer, the Squire had arranged all his temporal affairs in a manner to ensure as much ill-will as possible in the family he was leaving behind him, he was gathered to his fathers. ... — Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse Read full book for free!
... which arose out of later social conditions. The militant side of social activities has belonged to men, the passive to women; and men have been goaded into growth by the conditions and struggles of their lives. They have gathered around themselves a special man-formed environment of institutions and laws, of activities and inventions, of art and literature, of male sentiments, and male systems of opinions, to which they are connected in subtle and numerous ... — The Truth About Woman • C. Gasquoine Hartley Read full book for free!
... find him perhaps entering a second-hand shop to trade the decent clothes that Maud made him wear for something out of stock with a little cash to boot. At other times Evan would track him by the crowd that gathered to hear his argument with a shoe-string peddler or a push-cart man. A favourite trick of his to evade Evan was to suddenly dart behind a moving trolley car. More than once this almost ended his career on the spot. At other times he was ... — The Deaves Affair • Hulbert Footner Read full book for free!
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