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ragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering. To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Shak.

One who gathers after reapers.

The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.

That which is selected or gleaned; an extract. [R.] His excerptions out of the Fathers. Fuller.

eady to be reaped or gath Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Joel iii. 13. To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. Shak.

To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. [Obs.] Dryden.

One who leases or gleans. [Obs.] Swift.

om what is removed or changed. If grape gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes Jer. xlix. 9. These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Matt. xxiii. 23. Besides it leaveth a suspicion, as if more might be said than is expressed. Bacon.

That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.

sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. Cowper. Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience. Tennyson.

The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.]

A handful of gleaned grain. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.