Gath″er (?), v. i. 1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
When small humors gather to a gout. Pope.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes. Tennyson.
2. To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
Their snowball did not gather as it went. Bacon.
3. To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
4. To collect or bring things together.
Thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed. Matt. xxv. 26.