cull
cull is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Gully.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- any
- bait
- between
- bite
- catch
- credulous
- cully
- decimate
- decimation
- diminish
- dupe
- eliminate
- elimination
- eradication
- error
- exiguity
- exiguous
- fall
- far
- few
- fewness
- flat
- fool
- gobemouche
- greenhorn
- gudgeon
- gull
- handful
- hardly
- here
- infrequency
- infrequent
- into
- jay
- laughingstock
- maniple
- minority
- mistaken
- nibble
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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