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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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[ae]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]: Gather \Gath"er\, n. 1. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it a pucker. 2. (Carriage Making) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. 3. (Arch.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See {Gather}, v. t., 7. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gather \Gath"er\, v. i. 1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. When small humors gather to a gout. --Pope. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. --Tennyson. 2. To grow larger by accretion; to increase. Their snowball did not gather as it went --Bacon. 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. --Matt. xxv. 26. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gather n 1: small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching [syn: {gathering}] 2: the act of gathering something [syn: {gathering}] v 1: get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together" [syn: {garner}, {collect}, {pull together}] [ant: {spread}] 2: collect in one place "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: {meet}, {assemble}, {forgather}, {foregather}] 3: move together [syn: {congregate}, {collect}] 4: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office" [syn: {accumulate}, {cumulate}, {conglomerate}, {pile up}, {amass}] 5: conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework" 6: draw fabric together and sew it tightly [syn: {pucker}, {tuck}] 7: get people together; "assemble your colleagues"; "get together all those who are interested in the project"; "gather the close family members" [syn: {assemble}, {get together}] 8: believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?" [syn: {understand}, {infer}]
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