* glean.
The word glean comes from the French {glaner} to gather ears
or grains of corn. This was formerly a general custom in
England and Ireland: the poor went into the fields, and
collected the straggling ears of corn after the reapers; and
it was long supposed that this was their right, and that the
law recognized it; but although it has been an old custom, it
is now settled by a solemn judgment of the Court of Common
Pleas, that a right to glean in the harvest field cannot be
claimed by any person at common law. Any person may permit or
prevent it on his own grounds. By the Irish Acts, 25; Henry
VIII. c. 1, and 28; Henry VIII. c. 24, gleaning and leasing are
so restricted as to be in fact prohibited in that part of the
United Kingdom.
* reproach. Heb. shame.
Jas 1:5
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