Word Meanings - LEASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to LEASE)

• GLEANING
  The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• GLEANER
  1. One who gathers after reapers. 2. One who gathers slowly with labor. Locke.
• GATHER
  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. (more info) together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband,
• BEHIND
  1. On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood. Bp. Hall. 2. Left after the departure of, whether this be by
• BEHINDHAND
  1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. 2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some
• GLEAN
  glan clean, glanh to clean, purify, or AS. gelm, gilm, a hand 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
• GATHERING
  1. The act of collecting or bringing together. 2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. A charitable contribution; a collection. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• MEGATHERE; MEGATHERIUM
  An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
• FORGATHER
  To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.
• OMNIUM-GATHERUM
  A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley. Selden.
• REGATHER
  To gather again.
• WOOLGATHERING
  Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
• FOREGATHER
  See FORGATHER
• INGATHERING
  The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest. Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering. Ex. xxii. 16.