Gather \Gath"er\ (g[a^][th]"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gathering}.] [OE. gaderen, AS. gaderian, gadrian, fr. gador, geador, together, fr. g[ae]d fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband, MHG. gate, also companion, Goth. gadiliggs a sister's son. [root]29. See {Good}, and cf. {Together}.] 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.
And Belgium's capital had gathered them Her beauty and her chivalry. --Byron.
When he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together. --Matt. ii. 4.
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.
A rose just gathered from the stalk. --Dryden.
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? --Matt. vii. 16.
Gather us from among the heathen. --Ps. cvi. 47.
3. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. --Prov. xxviii. 8.
To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees. --Locke.
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.
Gathering his flowing robe, he seemed to stand In act to speak, and graceful stretched his hand. --Pope.
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.
Let me say no more! Gather the sequel by that went before. --Shak.
6. To gain; to win. [Obs.]
He gathers ground upon her in the chase. --Dryden.
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} or {To be gathered to one's fathers} to die. --Gen. xxv. 8.
{To gather breath}, to recover normal breathing after being out of breath; to get one's breath; to rest. --Spenser.
{To gather one's self together}, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a beast crouches preparatory to a leap.
{To gather way} (Naut.), to begin to move; to move with increasing speed.
Gather \Gath"er\, v. i. 1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
When small humors gather to a gout. --Pope.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. --Tennyson.
2. To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
Their snowball did not gather as it went. --Bacon.
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.
Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed. --Matt. xxv. 26.
Gather \Gath"er\, 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.
Meanwhile, Mr. Walsh's staff is evaluating how it will gather information it needs from President Reagan.
The core volunteers are aided by pueblo residents old and young, who gather when they can at the adobe-making site a mile away from the church to help with anything from loading materials to cooking.
A six-page manual advises that when an alarm sounds, people should stay calm, gather essentials, lock their homes and head away from the radiation source without speeding.
It also expressed appreciation to the board for taking time to gather more information.
Bentsen said one of the last things he did before heading to the hall on Wednesday night was to gather his wife and children in his hotel suite and pray.
Other experiments aboard LDEF were designed to gather interstellar gas atoms and micrometeoroid material.
Increasing SEC power to gather Wall Street data was approved by the House.
Other mockers will gather at the Palace club in Hollywood, the scene of the Golden Raspberry Foundation's annual Oscar spoof ceremony, which this year will be held simultaneously with the Academy Awards.
The Ad Hoc Committee Against the Klan called this week for counterdemonstrators to gather nearby in opposition to the Klan.
If the newest King holiday bill is passed and signed by Gov. Rose Mofford, who called the legislature into special session to consider the measure, opponents would have 90 days to gather signatures to call a referendum.
About 28 pilots, flight attendants and machinists stopped in Albany to gather donations and collect signatures for a petition that asks President Bush to appoint a trustee to run the troubled airline.
Describing himself as an 'independent-minded chap', he adds: 'It is not a very clever government.' Sentiments like that will be shouted from the rooftops of Torquay next week when the Liberal Democrats gather for their annual conference.
On the Friday before Mardi Gras, many of the riders gather in the American Legion Hall to eat gumbo, relive last year's run on videotape and swap stories of chicken chases like old soldiers trading war stories.
We four passengers gather behind the car and push as fast as we can.
The transcript of a tape shows that about nine seconds after an apparently normal takeoff, a cockpit alarm showed the Boeing 727 was not able to gather enough speed to stay aloft, the Dallas Times Herald reported.
Congressional committees have no power to adjudicate the guilt or innocence of anyone, only to gather information in furtherance of Congress's oversight and legislative functions.
'We do not know where the women and children are,' said Mr Nordstrom, a Swede, who arrived in Karlovac three months ago to help the refugees. Every day hundreds of young and old men gather on the square waiting for news of their relatives.
On Sunday mornings, groups of soccer players gather for pickup games on the green expanse in front of the Reichstag, where Hitler once addressed throngs of supporters.
Or are they? Philosophers from around the country will gather in Ann Arbor next week to discuss whether color is only in the eye of the beholder.
Thousands of people gather to watch.
The future of abortion in America will be on the Supreme Court's discussion agenda when its nine members gather for a closed-door conference Friday morning.
In "The Living Room" at St. Joseph's Hospital in Houston, cancer patients and families gather in a homey atmosphere to play games or view upbeat movies.
The panel has no legal authority to compel actions by either side, although it has broad power to subpoena witnesses and gather evidence.
"I mean, there is no official line." His office door opens onto a balconied hall where 465 teen-agers gather before their day begins.
As a result, the FDA's topmost officials, including the agency's new commissioner, David A. Kessler, will gather at the meeting and search for a way to make the drug available under a program of stiff monitoring.
Every other week, the workers in each plant gather by the hundreds for political lectures.
Organizers want truckers to set up protests at highway scale stations, travel in convoys or gather their rigs at shopping malls to tell the public about their wage demands, he said.
Hermann said Swiss authorities are investigating two people suspected of helping the Iranian diplomat gather information, but their nationalities or whereabouts were not disclosed.
Ellen Murphy, public relations director for the IRS, said the agency keeps tax information for 200 million accounts on its master files and does not gather information surreptitiously on taxpayers.
Arizona law gives voters the right to gather signatures and demand a referendum on most bills that clear the Legislature.