| 单词 | to glean away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto glean away c. With adverbs; esp. to glean up, to gather up, collect. Also †to glean away, to carry off; †to glean out, to ascertain by investigation of details. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 90 The plague..which gleaned away many thousand people. 1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 105 His stay in England was..spent in gleaning out what possible this kingdome could yeeld. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 501 By which means you have been enabled..to glean up your præinformations how the sands have lain. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 104 They Glean up Custom from their Neighbours; and so what one gets, the other loses. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 375 The several little Springs and Rills, that break out of the Sides of the Mountain, are glean'd up, and conveyed..into the main Hollow of the Aqueduct. 1730 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. vii, in Author's Farce 40 He does not only glean up all the Bad Words of his own..Nay, i gad, I have made New Words and spoil'd Old ones too. 1844 J. R. Lowell Pres. Crisis in Poet. Wks. (1890) I. 183 While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. < as lemmas |
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