Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GATH'ER, n.

A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing.

GATH'ER, v.i.

1. To collect; to unite; to increase; to be condensed. The clouds gather in the west.
2. To increase; to grow larger by accretion of like matter. Their snow-ball did not gather as it went Bacon.
3. To assemble. The people gather fast.
4. To generate pus or matter. [See Gathering.]

GATH'ER, v.t. [Sax. gaderian, or gatherian; D. gaderen. I know not whether the first syllable is a prefix or not. The Ch. גדר signifies to inclose, and to gather dates. If the elements are primarily Gd, the word coincides with Ger. gattern, Ch. אגד, to gather, to bind.]

1. To bring together; to collect a number of separate things into one place or into one aggregate body. Gather stones: and they took stones, and made a heap. Gen. xxxi.
2. To get in harvest: to reap or cut and bring into barns or stores. Levit. xxv. 20.
3. To pick up; to glean; to get in small parcels and bring together. Gather out the stones. Is. lxii. He must gather up money by degrees. Locke.
4. To pluck; to collect by cropping, picking, or plucking. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? Matth. vii.
5. To assemble; to congregate; to bring persons into one place. Ezek. xxii. 19.
6. To collect in abundance; to accumulate; to amass. I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings. Eccles. ii.
7. To select and take; to separate from others and bring together. Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen. Ps. cvi.
8. To sweep together. The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. Matth. xiii.
9. To bring into one body or interest. Yet will I gather others to him. Is. lvi.
10. To draw together from a state of expansion or diffusion; to contract. Gathering his flowing robe he seemed to stand, / In act to speak, and graceful stretch'd his hand. Pope.
11. To gain. He gathers ground upon her in the chase. Dryden.
12. To pucker; to plait.
13. To deduce by inference; to collect or learn by reasoning. From what I hear I gather that he was present. After he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us to preach the Gospel to them. Acts xvi.
14. To coil as a serpent. To gather breath, to have respite. [Obs.] Spenser.

GATH'ER-A-BLE, a.

That may be collected; that may be deduced. [Unusual.] Godwin.

GATH'ER-ED, pp.

Collected; assembled; contracted; plaited; drawn by inference.

GATH'ER-ER, n.

One who gathers or collects; one who gets in a crop.

GATH'ER-ING, n.

1. The act of collecting or assembling.
2. Collection; a crowd; an assembly.
3. Charitable contribution. 1 Cor. xvi.
4. A tumor suppurated or maturated; a collection of pus; an abscess.

GATH'ER-ING, ppr.

Collecting; assembling; drawing together; plaiting; wrinkling.

GATH'ERS, n.

Plaits; folds; puckers; wrinkles in cloth. Hudibras.

GAT'TER-TREE, n.

A species of Cornus or Cornelian cherry Fam. of Plants.

GAT'-TOOTH-ED, a.

Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

GAUD, n. [L. gaudium.]

An ornament; something worn for adorning the person; a fine thing. [Obs.] Shak.

GAUD, v.i. [L. gaudeo, to rejoice.]

To exult; to rejoice. [Obs.] Shak.

GAUD'ED, a.

Adorned with trinkets; colored. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.

GAUD'ER-Y, n.

Finery; fine things; ornaments. Bacon. Dryden.

GAUD'FUL, a.

Joyful; showy.

GAUD'I-LY, adv.

Showily; with ostentation of fine dress. Guthrie.

GAUD'I-NESS, n.

Showiness; tinsel appearance ostentatious finery. Whitlock.

GAUD'LESS, a.

Destitute of ornament.

GAUD'Y, a.

1. Showy; splendid; gay. A goldfinch there I saw, with gaudy pride / Of painted plumes. Dryden.
2. Ostentatiously fine; gay beyond the simplicity of nature or good taste. Costly thy habit as the purse can buy, / But not express'd in fancy; rich not gaudy. Shak.

GAUD'Y, n.

A feast or festival; a word in the university. Cheyne.

GAUGE, n. [gage.]

1. A measure; a standard of measure. Moxon.
2. Measure; dimensions. Burke.

GAUGE, v.t. [gage; Fr. jauger, to gage; jauge, a measuring rod; Arm. jauja, or jauchi, to gage; jauch, a rod. it is supposed by J. Thomson, that this is contracted from jaulge, from gaule, a rod or pole. But qu.]

1. To measure or to ascertain the contents of a cask or vessel, as a pipe, puncheon, hogshead, barrel, tierce or keg.
2. To measure in respect to proportion. The veins nicely gauged on each side. Derham.

GAUG'ED, pp.

Measured.

GAUG'ER, n.

One who gauges; an officer whose business is to ascertain the contents of casks.