Gather

·vi To collect or bring things together.

II. Gather ·vt To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.

III. Gather ·vt To Gain; to Win.

IV. Gather ·vi To grow larger by accretion; to Increase.

V. Gather ·noun A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

VI. Gather ·noun The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.

VII. Gather ·noun The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. ·see Gather, ·vt, 7.

VIII. Gather ·vi To Concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.

IX. Gather ·vt To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to Amass; to Gain; to heap up.

X. Gather ·vi To come together; to Collect; to Unite; to become assembled; to Congregate.

XI. Gather ·vt 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.

XII. Gather ·vt To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to Infer; to Conclude.

XIII. Gather ·vt 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.

XIV. Gather ·vt 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.

XV. Gather ·vt 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.