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Gleaned

Glean \Glean\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gleaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Gleaning.] [OE. glenen, OF. glener, glaner, F. glaner, fr. LL. glenare; cf. W. glan clean, glanh?u to clean, purify, or AS. gelm, gilm, a hand?ul.]

  1. To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary 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.

  2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.

  3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.

    Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments.
    --Locke.

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gleaned

vb. (en-past of: glean)

Usage examples of "gleaned".

The ARCT-10 had been his home but Triv, Portegin, Lunzie, and Varian were all contract specialists, gleaned from other star systems.

That much I had gleaned from snatches of then conversation before the seasickness robbed them of talk and dignity.

Keff said, hoping one of the expressions he had gleaned from Carialle's tapes of the broadcasting drones was appropriate.

The mages had employed only a small quantity of gestures that had been gleaned from the Old Ones in their everyday lives, giving him a very limited working vocabulary.

He gleaned from the chief that a `tip' was normal procedure so he bowed again.

He gleaned very little from it, but enough to know that this Talent could be dangerous in her hatred of the Gwyn-Raven-Lyon family.

It should be noted, and you may question them on this matter, that when Colonel Maddock and her companions carried small talismanic bags of Petaybean soil gleaned from the inner caves, they felt not only psychological comfort, but also some form of telepathic communication with the planet.

The entity's traces grew alarmed within the Mentat as the most recent report was mentally gleaned from those on duty.

Airing the worst possible interpretations of the data we have gleaned has cleared the air, so to speak.

Some matters he had been told by his masters, which they had gleaned from their tutors or from their working experiences, but the transfer of information and its interpretation had been verbal in all too many instances, passed on to those who would need to know.

He gleaned information from the children that sometimes did not tally with what the adults had said.

The others of their pod had long gone fishing on their own, too bored to see if there might just be humans to feed them when there were plenty small fish to be gleaned at this time of year from the rich northern waters.

It was only after he’d done it that Sarah had gleaned from Marcie that he’d never done any wiring before.

She realized she didn't know anything about her soon-to-be husband's background, but the details she'd gleaned so far were startling, to say the least.

From that, I take it that most of your information about it is gleaned from television shows and fortune-tellers in county fairs.