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To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

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  1. v. t. To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
  2. n. A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.
  3. n. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
  4. v. remove something that has been rejected
  5. v. look for and gather
  6. To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cuil flowers. From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. Dryden. Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled. Tennyson. A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Gully.
  7. To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather orcollect; as, to cuil flowers.From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls.Dryden.Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled. Tennyson.
  8. n:8/v:92 n. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality v. remove something that has been rejected