Glean

v. t. [imp. & p. p. GLEANED; p. pr. & vb. n. GLEANING.] [Fr. glaner, Prov. Fr. gléner, to glean, L. Lat. glenare, Fr. glane, handful, cluster. Cf. W. gláin, glîn, clean, glanâu, to clean, purify, Icel. glana, to become light.] 1. To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper. *To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.* Shak. 2. To collect with patient and minute labor; as, to glean facts.

v. i. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.

And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. Ruth ii. 3.

n. 1. A collection made by gleaning, or by gathering here and there a little. The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. Dryden. 2. The after-birth or secundine of an animal, especially of a cow, or other domestic animal; cleaning. [Obs.] Holland.