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Having the flowers gathered into a head.

A principal or important point of concentration; the nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a center of attaction.

To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. Where there is no visible truth wherein to center, error is as wide as men's fancies. Dr. H. More. Our hopes must center in ourselves alone. Dryden.

To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control. [To] centralize the power of government. Bancroft.

Fixed or stated; regular; determinate. The people go out and gather a certain rate every day. Ex. xvi. 4.

One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.

A small inclosed pond used for gathering and greening oysters.

or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.

To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine. The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5. But now thou dost thyself immure and close In some one corner of a feeble heart. Herbert. A closed sea, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.…

Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [Poetic.] Pope.

To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's. Tennyson. The princes of the country clustering together. Foxe.

A gatherer of cods or peas. [Obs. or Prov.] Johnson.

To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.

The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.

Gathered together.

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation. Bp. Hoadley.

A collection or gathering, as of pus, or rubbish, or odds and ends.

To put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle. [R.] Straight the sands, Commoved around, in gathering eddies play. Thomson.