SELECT (2)

select (2). Select, a. well chosen, picked, culled, choice

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Se‐lect″, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Selected; p. pr. & vb. n. Selecting.] To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal. “One peculiar nation to select.” Milton. The pious chief . . . A hundred youths from all his train selects. Dryden.