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   Gather , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gathered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gathering.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. √29. See Good, and cf. Together.]
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   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.
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   And Belgium's capital had gathered them
   Her beauty and her chivalry.
   Byron.
   
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   When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together.
   Matt. ii. 4.
   
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   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.
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   A rose just gathered from the stalk.
   Dryden.
   
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   Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
   Matt. vii. 16.
   
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   Gather us from among the heathen.
   Ps. cvi. 47.
   
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   To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
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   He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
   Prov. xxviii. 8.
   
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   To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees.
   Locke.
   
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   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.
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   Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand
   In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand.
   Pope.
   
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   To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
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   Let me say no more!
   Gather the sequel by that went before.
   Shak.
   
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   To gain; to win. [Obs.]
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   He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
   Dryden.
   
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   (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.
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   (Naut.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
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   To be gathered to one's people or To be gathered to one's fathers to die. Gen. xxv. 8. -- To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's 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.
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   Gather , v. i.
   To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
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   When small humors gather to a gout.
   Pope.
   
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   Tears from the depth of some divine despair
   Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes.
   Tennyson.
   
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   To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
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   Their snowball did not gather as it went.
   Bacon.
   
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   To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
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   To collect or bring things together.
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   Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed.
   Matt. xxv. 26.
   
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   Gather, n.
   A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
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   (Carriage Making) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
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   (Arch.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
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