Crossword clues for gathered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To gain; to win. [Obs.]
He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
--Dryden. (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.
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(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.
Wiktionary
(context Quakerism English) focused, centered, achieving a state of shared mysticism. v
(en-past of: gather)
WordNet
adj. having accumulated or become more intense; "the deepened gloom" [syn: deepened]
brought together in one place; "the collected works of Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt" [syn: collected] [ant: uncollected, uncollected]
Usage examples of "gathered".
Iza had been thinking about how to help the child, considering the dried herbs she carried in her otter-skin pouch and while she gathered wood, she looked over the plants growing in the vicinity.
When the wood was gathered and the fireplace set, Grod, the man who walked in front with Brun, uncovered a glowing coal wrapped in moss and stuffed into the hollow end of an aurochs horn.
When the water in the cooking basket was bubbling, Iza gathered up the other plants she had collected, along with the watertight wicker bowl, and went back to the stream.
Everyone gathered around the large pit in which the haunches of bison were cooking.
The men who gathered on the other side fell into a pattern according to their hierarchical place within the clan, but Mog-ur was not in sight.
The clan was inside the cave, gathered around their family fires after the evening meal.
In the beginning, Ayla just followed Iza around and watched while they skinned animals, cured hides, stretched thongs cut in one spiral piece from a single hide, wove baskets, mats, or nets, gouged bowls out of logs, gathered wild foods, prepared meals, preserved meat and plant food for winter, and responded to the wishes of any man who called upon them to perform a service.
When the pile of stones was gone, she gathered them up again, and then a third time.
The men were gathered together at the opposite side of the cave opening planning their next hunt.
Iza gathered several plants, then walked to a nearby stand of brilliant hollyhocks and picked several of the rose, purple, white, and yellow blossoms from the tall simple stems.
Birds drawn by the fish gathered to gorge on the entrails, stealing a few filets when they could get close enough.
Then he gathered up the new implements and walked to the shelter he shared with the other members of his hearth.
She gathered the nuts, brought them into the cave, and ate as many as her stomach, shrunken from lack of food, could hold.
Her foot coverings were loose-fitting circles of leather gathered together at the ankle, and two pair made for somewhat clumsy walking, the second pair fitting even more loosely over the first in a ballooning effect.
It tended to stifle the warm communication that was usual when the women gathered together to work.