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  1. 1. v. t. To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality Source: wordnet
  4. 4. v. remove something that has been rejected Source: wordnet
  5. 5. v. look for and gather Source: wordnet
  6. 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. Source: webster
  7. 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. Source: adambom
  8. 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 Source: ecdict

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