Part 4726

<blockquote>A rose just <b>gathered</b> from the stalk. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Do men <b>gather</b> grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? <i>Matt. vii. 16.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Gather</b> us from among the heathen. <i>Ps. cvi. 47.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.</def>

<blockquote>He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall <b>gather</b> it for him that will pity the poor. <i>Prov. xxviii. 8.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To pay the creditor . . . he must <b>gather</b> up money by degrees. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>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>as, to <ex>gather</ex> a ruffle</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Gathering</b> his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.</def>

<blockquote>Let me say no more<?/ <b>Gather</b> the sequel by that went before. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To gain; to win.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>He <b>gathers</b> ground upon her in the chase. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To haul in; to take up; <as>as, to <ex>gather</ex> the slack of a rope</as>.</def>

<cs><col>To be gathered</col> <col>to one's people, &or; to one's fathers</col></mcol> <cd>to die. <i>Gen. xxv. 8</i>.</cd> -- <col>To gather breath</col>, <cd>to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get breath; to rest. <i>Spenser</i>.</cd> -- <col>To gather one's self together</col>, <cd>to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.</cd> -- <col>To gather way</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.</cd></cs>

<h1>Gather</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gath"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.</def>

<blockquote>When small humors <b>gather</b> to a gout. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and <b>gather</b> to the eyes. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To grow larger by accretion; to increase.</def>

<blockquote>Their snowball did not <b>gather</b> as it went. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; <as>as, a boil has <ex>gathered</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To collect or bring things together.</def>

<blockquote>Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and <b>gather</b> where I have not strewed. <i>Matt. xxv. 26.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gather</h1> <Xpage=615>

<hw>Gath"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Carriage Making)</fld> <def>The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in <i>gathering</i>. See <er>Gather</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, 7.</def>