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verb

Glean v. t. (past & past part. gleaned; pres. part. gleaning)

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."

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

To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain. "Content to glean what we can from... experiments."

Glean v. i.

To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. "And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers."

To pick up or gather anything by degrees. "Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate."

noun

Glean n. A collection made by gleaning. "The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs."

Glean n. Cleaning; afterbirth. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Bristol, but they were either never received or not preserved. Of other letters I have only fragments, and some that are quoted by Mr. Prime in his biography have vanished utterly. Still, from what remains, we can glean a fairly good idea of the life of the young man at that period. His parents continually begged him to leave politics alone and to tell them more of his artistic life, of his visits to interesting places, and of his intercourse with the literary and artistic ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Samuel F. B. Morse

... serious matter, a labour of love, and the work of many years; to be an architect and a builder was the aspiration of their boyhood, the natural growth of artistic instinct, guided by so much right as they could glean from their elders. With few books or rules, they worked out their designs for themselves, irrespective, it would seem, of time or cost. And why should they consider either the one or the other, when time was of no 'marketable value,' when the buildings were to last for ages; and when there ...

— Normandy Picturesque • Henry Blackburn

... to do here, except to glean a certain amount of information of rather doubtful accuracy, until the question of tariff rates shall have been definitely settled. There is now nothing on which to base any plans or calculations for business operations. The native merchants are complaining seriously. They are waiting to place ...

— Porto Rico - Its History, Products and Possibilities... • Arthur D. Hall

... used to tow log rafts down the river. Donald McKaye was working for Darrow. He was their raftsman; he had been seen out on the log boom, pike pole in hand, shoving logs in to the endless chain elevator that drew them up to the seas. As might be imagined, Mrs. Daney was among the first to glean this information, and to her husband she repeated it at luncheon ...

— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne

... alleging a headache as an explanation of her mood. The unexpected sight of Dermot had shaken her, and she dreaded the moment when she must greet him. Yet she was anxious to witness his meeting with Ida, hoping that she might glean from it some idea of how matters really ...

— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly

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