Hypertext Webster Gateway: "glean"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Glean
The corners of fields were not to be reaped, and the sheaf
accidentally left behind was not to be fetched away, according
to the law of Moses (Lev. 19:9; 23:22; Deut. 24:21). They were
to be left for the poor to glean. Similar laws were given
regarding vineyards and oliveyards. (Comp. Ruth 2:2.)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glean \Glean\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gleaned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gleaning}.] [OE. glenen, OF. glener, glaner, F. glaner, fr.
LL. glenare; cf. W. glan clean, glanh?u to clean, purify, or
AS. gelm, gilm, a hand?ul.]
1. To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or
fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or
grapes left after the gathering.
To glean the broken ears after the man That the main
harvest reaps. --Shak.
2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to
obtain.
Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments.
--Locke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glean \Glean\, v. i.
1. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field
after the reapers. --Ruth ii. 3.
2. To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on,
and gather up the whole estate. --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glean \Glean\, n.
A collection made by gleaning.
The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
--Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glean \Glean\, n.
Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] --Holland.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
glean
v : gather, as of as crops [syn: {reap}, {harvest}]
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