(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little;
to amass; to gain; to heap up.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a
conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove;
to infer; to conclude.
(v. t.) To gain; to win.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a
rope.
(v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become
assembled; to congregate.
(v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
(v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and
generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
(v. i.) To collect or bring things together.
(n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through
it; a pucker.
(n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the
wheels from working outward.
(n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in
gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
