Word Meanings - GLEANING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.

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• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• GLEANING
  The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• NATURALIZE
  1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• MISRECOLLECT
  To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.
• UNKNOWLEDGED
  Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.