Gather
Definition of Gather
Gath´er Pronunciation: găth´ẽr | v. t. | 1. | | | 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. | | 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. | | 3. | To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. | | 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. | | 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. | | 6. | To gain; to win. | | 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 | | to die. |
| | v. i. | 1. | To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. | | 2. | To grow larger by accretion; to increase. | | 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. | | 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. |
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