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Webster 1913 Edition

Glean

Glean

,
Verb.
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[GREEK]u
to clean, purify, or AS.
gelm
,
gilm
, a hand[GREEK]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.
Shakespeare
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.

Glean

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
And she went, and came, and
gleaned
in the field after the reapers.
Ruth ii. 3.
2.
To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
Piecemeal they this acre first, then that;
Glean
on, and gather up the whole estate.
Pope.

Glean

,
Noun.
A collection made by gleaning.
The
gleans
of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
Dryden.

Glean

,
Noun.
Cleaning; afterbirth.
[Obs.]
Holland.

Webster 1828 Edition

Glean

GLEAN

, v.t.
1.
To gather the stalks and ears of grain which reapers leave behind them.
Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of
corn---Ruth 2.
2.
To collect things thinly scattered; to gather what is left in small parcels or numbers, or what is found in detached parcels; as, to glean a few passages from an author.
They gleaned of them in the highways five thousand
men. Judges 20.

GLEAN

,
Verb.
I.
To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. Ruth 2.

GLEAN

,
Noun.
A collection made by gleaning, or by gathering here and there a little.
The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.

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