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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. |
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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. |
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To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little;
to amass; to gain; to heap up. |
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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. |
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To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a
conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove;
to infer; to conclude. |
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To gain; to win. |
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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. |
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To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a
rope. |
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To come together; to collect; to unite; to become
assembled; to congregate. |
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To grow larger by accretion; to increase. |
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To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and
generate pus; as, a boil has gathered. |
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To collect or bring things together. |
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A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through
it; a pucker. |
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The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the
wheels from working outward. |
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The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in
gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7. |
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