To gather the stalks and ears of grain which reapers leave behind them. Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn Ruth 2:2.

To collect things thinly scattered; to gather what is left in small parcels or numbers, or what is found in detached parcels; as, to glean a few passages from an author. They gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men. Judges 20:45.

To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers. Ruth 2:3.

A collection made by gleaning, or by gathering here and there a little. The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.