Word Meanings - FORGATHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.

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• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• CIRCLED
  Having the form of a circle; round. "Monthly changes in her circled orb." Shak.
• GOSSIPRY
  1. Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale. 2. Idle talk; gossip. Mrs. Browning.
• WITHINSIDE
  In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
• CONVENER
  1. One who convenes or meets with others. 2. One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.
• CIRCLET
  1. A little circle; esp., an ornament for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser. 2. A round body; an orb. Pope. Fairest of stars . . .
• GOSSIPY
  Full of, or given to, gossip.
• CONVENE
  1. To come together; to meet; to unite. In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. Sir I. Newton. 2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. Locke.
• GOSSIPER
  One given to gossip. Beaconsfield.
• CIRCLER
  A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. B. Jonson.
• FORGATHER
  To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.
• GOSSIPREDE
  The relationship between a person and his sponsors.
• WITHIN
  with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
• WITHINFORTH
  Within; inside; inwardly. Wyclif. labor for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon. Bp. Peacock.
• CIRCLE
  An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of which consists of an entire circle. Note: When it is fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane
• GOSSIP
  1. To make merry. Shak. 2. To prate; to chat; to talk much. Shak. 3. To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
• INCIRCLE
  See ENCIRCLE
• PARQUET CIRCLE
  That part of the lower floor of a theater with seats at the rear of the parquet and beneath the galleries; -- called also, esp. in U. S., orchestra circle or parterre.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• ENCIRCLE
  To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city. Her brows encircled with his serpent rod. Parnell. Syn. -- To encompass; surround; environ; inclose.
• SEMICIRCLE
  The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference. A semicircumference. 2. A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference. 3. An instrument for measuring angles.
• INCIRCLET
  A small circle. Sir P. Sidney.