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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accumulate, amass, ascertain, assemble, bring in, bring together, choose out, collect, conclude, crop, crop herbs, cull, cut, decide between, deduce, derive, dig, dig up, draw a conclusion, draw an inference, excerpt, extract, fetch, find, garner, gather, gather in, get in, get together, grabble, grub, grub up, handpick, harvest, hay, induce, infer, learn, make a selection, mow, nut, pick, pick out, pick up, pluck, rake up, reap, reap and carry, reason, reason that, round up, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, select, sift, single out, take as proved, take up, winnow
Dictionary Results for glean:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
glean
    v 1: gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" [syn:
         reap, harvest, glean]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glean \Glean\, v. 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?u to clean, purify, or
   AS. gelm, gilm, a hand?ul.]
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   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.
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            To glean the broken ears after the man
            That the main harvest reaps.          --Shak.
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   2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
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   3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to
      obtain.
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            Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments.
                                                  --Locke.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glean \Glean\, v. i.
   1. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
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            And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field
            after the reapers.                    --Ruth ii. 3.
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   2. To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
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            Piecemeal they this acre first, then that;
            Glean on, and gather up the whole estate. --Pope.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glean \Glean\, n.
   A collection made by gleaning.
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         The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
                                                  --Dryden.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glean \Glean\, n.
   Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] --Holland.
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6. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Glean
   The corners of fields were not to be reaped, and the sheaf
   accidentally left behind was not to be fetched away, according
   to the law of Moses (Lev. 19:9; 23:22; Deut. 24:21). They were
   to be left for the poor to glean. Similar laws were given
   regarding vineyards and oliveyards. (Comp. Ruth 2:2.)
   

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