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glean something from something

1. Lit. to gather the leftovers of something from something; to gather the ears of grain left in a field after a harvest. The poor people gleaned their entire living from what was left in the fields. We will have to go out and glean something from the fields.

2. and glean something from someone Fig. to figure something out from bits of gossip. I was able to glean some important news from Tommy. Tell me the news you gleaned from the people in town.

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But both chat show hosts may be disappointed about how much information they can glean from the McCanns. OPRAH'S pounds 1M FOR McCANNS; THE HUNT FOR MADELEINE by The Mirror (London, England) 22 E99 We know very little about him except from what we can glean from military records. Victorio; Apache warrior and chief by Reference & Research Book News Other than what we can glean from her resume, there's not much we can make out about President George W. EDITORIAL HARRIET WHO? by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)			given to doing given to understand glad glad hand glad rags glad to hear it glad to meet you glad you could come glad you could drop by glance glance around glance at glance back glance down glance off glance over glance through glare glare at glare down on glass glass in glaze over gleam gleam with glean from glide glide across glide away glint with glisten glisten with glitter glitter with gloat over gloom gloom and doom glory Glory be! glory days glory in gloss over glove gloves are off glow glow with glower at glue glue down glue on glue together			GLDSS GLDT GLDTF GLDV GLDVP GLDZ Gle GLE1 GLEA Glead gleam gleam gleam gleam with gleamed gleamed gleamer gleamer gleaming gleaming Gleaming Goths gleamingly gleams gleams gleams Gleamy glean glean glean glean glean from glean information glean knowledge of gleaned gleaned gleaner gleaner gleaners gleaners Gleaners Community Food Bank gleaning gleaning Gleaning for the World Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages gleanings Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh gleans gleans GLEAS Gleason Gleason bevel gear system Gleason grading system Gleason scale Gleason score Gleason system Gleason, Andrew M. Gleason, Henry Allan Gleason, Jackie GLEB Gleb Anatolevich Bonch-Osmolovskii

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