Word Meanings - ASSORTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Selected; culled.

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• CULLIBLE
  Easily deceived; gullible.
• CULLET
  Broken glass for remelting.
• CULLION
  A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion. "Away, base cullions." Shak. (more info) fellow, coward, dupe, from OF. couillon, coillon, testicle, fr. il
• CULLIBILITY
  Gullibility. Swift.
• CULLING
  Anything separated or selected from a mass. (more info) 1. The act of one who culls. 2. pl.
• SELECTIVE
  Selecting; tending to select. This selective providence of the Almighty. Bp. Hall.
• CULLIONLY
  Mean; base. Shak.
• CULLS
  1. Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out. 2. Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked.
• SELECTEDLY
  With care and selection.
• SELECTMAN
  One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. The system of delegated
• CULLY
  A person easily deceived, tricked, or imposed on; a mean dupe; a gull. I have learned that . . . I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess. Addison.
• CULLER
  One who piks or chooses; esp., an inspector who select wares suitable for market.
• SELECTION
  The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. See under Natural.
• CULLENDER
  A strainer. See Colander.
• CULLYISM
  The state of being a cully. Less frequent instances of eminent cullyism. Spectator.
• CULLIS
  A gutter in a roof; a channel or groove.
• CULL
  A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Gully.
• SELECT
  Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice. A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater
• SELECTOR
  One who selects.
• SELECTNESS
  The quality or state of being select.
• LUCULLITE
  A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.
• SCULLION
  A scalion.
• CUCULLATE; CUCULLATED
  Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet. Having the prothorax elevated so as to form a sort of hood, receiving the head, as in certain insects. Having a hoodlike crest on the head, as certain
• PORTCULLIS
  A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance of an enemy. "Let the portcullis fall." Sir W. Scott. She . . . the huge portcullis high updrew. Milton. 2. An English
• SCULLERY
  for washing dishes, and for swillery, fr. OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian , but influenced either by Icel. skola, skyla, Dan. skylle, or by OF. escuelier a place for keeping dishes, fr. escuele a dish, F. écuelle, fr. L. scutella a salver, waiter
• SCULL
  The skull.
• SCULLER
  1. A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars. Dryden. 2. One who sculls.
• PRESELECT
  To select beforehand.