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GLEAN,

1. To gather the stalks and ears of grain which reapers leave behind them.

Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of

corn---Ruth 2 .

2. To collect things thinly scattered to gather what is left in small parcels or numbers, or what is found in detached parcels as, to glean a few passages from an author.

They gleaned of them in the highways five thousand

men. Judges 20 .

GLEAN, To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.

And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. Ruth 2 .

GLEAN, n. A collection made by gleaning, or by gathering here and there a little.

The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.

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Entry for 'Glean'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​g/glean.html.
 
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