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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.

Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. [R.] Godwin.

One who gathers or collects.

That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as:

Same as Forgather.

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [Scot.] Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.

The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest. Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering. Ex. xxii. 16.

An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.

One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.

A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley. [Colloq. & Humorous] Selden.

To gather again.

One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.

To gather up; to contract; to draw together. [Obs.] Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.

dulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. Burton.

To gather together; to collect. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.

To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

ages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.