What is to collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain. Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments. Locke called?
glean — To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain. Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments. Locke. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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