Glean vs. Gleam

Gleanverb

To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.

Gleanverb

To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard).

Gleanverb

To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.

Gleanverb

To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts.

Gleannoun

A collection made by gleaning.

Gleanverb

To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.

Gleanverb

To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.

Gleanverb

To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.

Gleanverb

To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.

Gleanverb

To pick up or gather anything by degrees.

Gleannoun

A collection made by gleaning.

Gleannoun

Cleaning; afterbirth.

Gleanverb

gather, as of natural products;

Gleamnoun

a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.

Gleamnoun

a glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something.

Gleamnoun

brightness or shininess; splendor.

Gleamverb

To shine; to glitter; to glisten.

Gleamverb

To be briefly but strongly apparent.

Gleamverb

To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

Gleamverb

To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

Gleamverb

To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.

Gleamverb

To shine; to cast light; to glitter.

Gleamverb

To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).

Gleamnoun

A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.

Gleamnoun

Brightness; splendor.

Gleamnoun

an appearance of reflected light

Gleamnoun

a flash of light (especially reflected light)

Gleamverb

be shiny, as if wet;

Gleamverb

shine brightly, like a star or a light

Gleamverb

appear briefly;