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De - Pt| English Dictionary: gathering | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Gather \Gath"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gathering}.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. g[91]d fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. [root]29. See {Good}, and cf. {Together}.] 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. --Byron. When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together. --Matt. ii. 4. 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. --Dryden. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? --Matt. vii. 16. Gather us from among the heathen. --Ps. cvi. 47. 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. --Prov. xxviii. 8. To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees. --Locke. 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. --Pope. 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. --Shak. 6. To gain; to win. [Obs.] He gathers ground upon her in the chase. --Dryden. 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 one's fathers} to die. --Gen. xxv. 8. {To gather breath}, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get breath; to rest. --Spenser. {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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Gathering \Gath"er*ing\, a. Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating. {Gathering board} (Bookbinding), a table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book. --Knight. {Gathering coal}, a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning. {Gathering hoop}, a hoop used by coopers to draw together the ends of barrel staves, to allow the hoops to be slipped over them. {Gathering peat}. (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Gathering \Gath"er*ing\, n. 1. The act of collecting or bringing together. 2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: (a) A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. (b) A charitable contribution; a collection. (c) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess. | |
