Part 4833

<blockquote>Content to <b>glean</b> what we can from . . . experiments. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Glean</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glean</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.</def>

<blockquote>And she went, and came, and <b>gleaned</b> in the field after the reapers. <i>Ruth ii. 3.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To pick up or gather anything by degrees.</def>

<blockquote>Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; <b>Glean</b> on, and gather up the whole estate. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Glean</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glean</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A collection made by gleaning.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>gleans</b> of yellow thyme distend his thighs. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Glean</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glean</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Cleaning; afterbirth.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Holland.</i>

<h1>Gleaner</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glean"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who gathers after reapers.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who gathers slowly with labor.</def>

<i>Locke.</i>

<h1>Gleaning</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glean"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.</def>

<blockquote><b>Glenings</b> of natural knowledge. <i>Cook.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Glebe</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glebe</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>gl\'8abe</ets>, L. <ets>gleba</ets>, <ets>glaeba</ets>, clod, land, soil.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A lump; a clod.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Turf; soil; ground; sod.</def>

<blockquote>Fertile of corn the <b>glebe</b>, of oil, and wine. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Eccl. Law)</fld> <def>The land belonging, or yielding revenue, to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.</def>

<h1>Glebeless</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glebe"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no glebe.</def>

<h1>Glebosity</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Gle*bos"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being glebous.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>