To gain; to win.
To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring stitches closer together.
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
To congregate, or assemble.
Especially, to harvest food.
To collect; normally separate things.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
To be filled with pus
To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
A gathering.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
To be strongly but briefly apparent.
A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.