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To be occupied with making shocks. Reap well, scatter not, gather clean that is shorn, Bind fast, shock apace. Tusser.

To gather up as with a shovel.

wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted. And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay. Spenser. I have not found that water, by mixture of ashes, will shrink or draw into less room. B…

To gather simples, or medicinal plants. As simpling on the flowery hills she [Circe] strayed. Garth.

ise of ability; contrivance; address. [Obs.] Richard . . . by a thousand princely skills, gathering so much corn as if he meant not to return. Fuller.

The war cry, or gathering word, of a Highland clan in Scotland; hence, any rallying cry. Sir W. Scott.

To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted. Mortimer.

A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable. [Colloq. U. S.]

One employed in gathering sponges.

To prop; to make stanch, or strong. His gathered sticks to stanch the wall Of the snow tower when snow should fall. Emerson.

ion. "The standing pattern of their imitation." South. The king granted the Jews . . . to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life. Esther viii. 11.

so, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber. Withered sticks to gather, which might serve Against a winter's day. Milton.

The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.

The act of laying small gathers in cloth in regular order.

A conference or conversation of philosophers at a banquet; hence, any similar gathering.

ke up money at the bank. (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. Ezek. xix. 1. (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature. (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal…

The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels. [Written also teaselling, teazling.]

space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring. The people were gathered thick together. Luke xi. 29. Black was the forest; thick with beech it stood. Dryden.

The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt.

To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes. I have seen the dumb men throng to see him. Shak.