To be gathered to one's people, or to one's fathers to die. Gen. xxv.
8. -- To gather breath, to recover normal breathing after being out of
breath; to get breath; to rest. Spenser. -- To gather one's self
together, to collect and dispose one's powers for a great effort, as a
beast crouches preparatory to a leap. -- To gather way (Naut.), to
begin to move; to move with increasing speed.
Gath"er (?), v. i. 1. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become
assembled; to congregate.
When small humors gather to a gout.
Pope.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and
gather to the eyes.
Tennyson.