Glean

Definitions

1. A collection of something made by gleaning.
   dialectal
2. The afterbirth or placenta of an animal, especially a cow or sheep.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Even the greateſt, in reſpect of God, is but a gleaner. God, he is the Maſter of the Harveſt; all Gifts and Graces they are his, in an infinite meaſure; and every godly man, more or leſſe, gleanes from him. Abraham gleaned a great gleane of Faith; Moſes, of Meekneſſe; […]”

“But late at Night, vvith vveary Pinions come⟳ / The lab'ring Youth, and heavy laden home. / Plains, Meads, and Orchards all the day he plies, / The gleans of yellovv Thime diſtend his Thighs: […]”

“The gleane of a covv hauing nevvly calved, taken vvhiles it is moiſt and ſo applied, is good for any ulcers of the viſage.”

“[O]ur midvvives doe vvarrant, that if a vvoman drinke goats urine, it vvill ſtrip all fluxes of bloud be they never ſo immoderat, ſo that ſhe apply⟳ alſo outvvardly the dung of the ſaid beaſt. The pellicle or gleane vvherein a kid vvas enfolded vvithin the dams vvombe, kept untill it bee drie and drunke in vvine, putteth foorth the after-birth in vvomen.”

“This Method of giving VVater to a nevv-calved Covv, vvherein Aſhes are thus put⟳, is conſtantly practiſed by ſome to cleanſe her, and bring⟳ avvay her Glean.”

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