Glean

Definition of Glean

v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Gleaned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gleaning.]
	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. - Shak.
	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.
v. 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.
n.	1.	A collection made by gleaning. The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. - Dryden.
	1.	Cleaning; afterbirth.

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