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.
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.
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.
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.