Definition of select

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Select (a.) Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice.

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Anyone :: Anyone (n.) One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words..
Boarder :: Boarder (n.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
Draught :: Draught (n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2).
Registration :: Registration (v.) The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.
Speaker :: Speaker (n.) A book of selections for declamation.
Selective :: Selective (a.) Selecting; tending to select.
Selection :: Selection (n.) The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference..
Collectanea :: Collectanea (v. t.) Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology..
Exquisite :: Exquisite (a.) Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship..
Pericope :: Pericope (n.) A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon..
Selectness :: Selectness (n.) The quality or state of being select.
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To select by the drawing of lots.
Bibliomancy :: Bibliomancy (n.) A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events..
Wail :: Wail (v. t.) To choose; to select.
Elect :: Elect (v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor..
Cento :: Cento (n.) A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from different authors disposed in a new order.
Preselect :: Preselect (v. t.) To select beforehand.
Decimation :: Decimation (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment..
Option :: Option (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845..
Appointor :: Appointor (n.) The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2..
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