glean, glene

t. & i. [Old Fr. glener; Fr. gelina, or gelima a handful; from A. S. gilm =a glaner, from Low Lat. gleno, from glen a, glenn a. handful of gathered corn.] [GLEAM (2), υ.] A. Transitive: I. Literally: 1. To gather, as ears of corn which have been pa ed over on the cornfield. 2. To gather ears of corn from. "With smiling patience in her looks, she went To glean Palæmon's fields." II. Figuratively : Thomson. Autumn, 217. IMG:content-0511.png:[blocks in formation] gleaner gleaner, s. [Eng. glean, v.; -er.] 1. Lit.: One who gleans or gathers corn after the reapers. "On the waste fields to trace the gleaner's way." Scott: Lord of the Isles, i. (Introd.) 2. Fig .: One who collects a iduously from var i ous sources. "An ordinary coffee-house gleaner in the city is an ar rant statesman." -Locke. glē-bạ, s. [Lat.=a lump of earth, glebe.] Bot.: The same as GLEBULA, 1. glēbe, s. [Fr. glèbe, from_Lat. gled a =a clod of earth, soil; Sp. & Ital. gleba.] I. Ordinary Language: *1. Land, soil, ground, turf. "Great Eusham's fertile glebe what tongue hath not ex- tolled?" Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 13 2. In the same sense as II. 1. *3. A lump, ma , or concretion. IMG:content-0512.png:[blocks in formation] tals."-Arbuthnot. II. Technically : *glē-bos-1-tě, , s. [As if from a Lat. glebositas , from glebosus. The quality or state of being glebous.