Available Definitions:
1) n. - The act of collecting or bringing together.
2) n. - That which is gathered, collected, or brought together
3) n. - A crowd; an assembly; a congregation.
4) n. - A charitable contribution; a collection.
5) n. - A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
6) a. - Assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
7) v. t. - 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.
8) v. t. - To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
9) v. i. - To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
10) v. i. - To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
11) v. i. - To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
12) v. i. - To collect or bring things together.
13) n. - A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
14) n. - The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
15) n. - The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather , v. t., 7.