Word Meanings - NEWS-WRITER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.

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• GATHER
  To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. (more info) together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband,
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• WROTE
  To root with the snout. See 1st Root. Chaucer.
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• GATHERING
  1. The act of collecting or bringing together. 2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. A charitable contribution; a collection. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• MEGATHERE; MEGATHERIUM
  An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
• FORGATHER
  To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.
• OMNIUM-GATHERUM
  A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley. Selden.
• REGATHER
  To gather again.
• WOOLGATHERING
  Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
• FOREGATHER
  See FORGATHER
• INGATHERING
  The act or business of gathering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest. Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering. Ex. xxii. 16.