Word Meanings - CULLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything separated or selected from a mass. (more info) 1. The act of one who culls. 2. pl.

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• SEPARATISM
  The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
• SEPARATIVE
  Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle.
• SEPARATICAL
  Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical. Dr. T. Dwight.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• SEPARATING
  Designed or employed to separate. Separating funnel , a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities.
• SEPARATIST
  One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary. Heavy fines on divines who should preach in
• SEPARATOR
  One who, or that which, separates. Specifically: A device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it. An apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue.
• SELECTIVE
  Selecting; tending to select. This selective providence of the Almighty. Bp. Hall.
• SEPARATE
  pfref. se- aside + parare to make ready, prepare. See Parade, and cf. 1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii.
• CULLS
  1. Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out. 2. Any refuse stuff, as rolls not properly baked.
• SEPARATORY
  Separative. Cheyne.
• 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
• SEPARATISTIC
  Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.
• SEPARATRIX
  The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.
• 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.
• 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.
• SEPARATION
  The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. Specifically: Chemical analysis. Divorce. The operation of removing water from steam. Judicial separation , a form of divorce; a separation of man and wife which has the effect
• SELECTNESS
  The quality or state of being select.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• PRESELECT
  To select beforehand.