Definition of gather

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Gather (v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered..

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Gather :: Gather (n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7..
Bookmaker :: Bookmaker (n.) One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler..
Codder :: Codder (n.) A gatherer of cods or peas.
Teaseling :: Teaseling (n.) The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.
Involve :: Involve (v. t.) To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
Troop :: Troop (v. i.) To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
Compilation :: Compilation (n.) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents..
Levy :: Levy (v. t.) To gather or exact; as, to levy money..
Induction :: Induction (n.) A process of demonstration in which a general truth is gathered from an examination of particular cases, one of which is known to be true, the examination being so conducted that each case is made to depend on the preceding one; -- called also successive induction..
Prey :: Prey (n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
Pulu :: Pulu (n.) A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent..
Gleaning :: Gleaning (n.) The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.
Gathering :: Gathering (n.) The act of collecting or bringing together.
Math :: Math (n.) A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath..
Drum :: Drum (v. t.) (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers..
Pick :: Pick (v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc..
Round-up :: Round-up (n.) The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
Seguestration :: Seguestration (n.) A kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with..
Medlar :: Medlar (n.) A tree of the genus Mespilus (M. Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay..
Pack :: Pack (v. i.) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack..
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