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Word Meanings - CULL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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  • ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
    Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
  • CONFOUNDED
    1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
  • ELECTROTYPER
    One who electrotypes.
  • ELECTREPETER
    An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
  • APPROPRIATENESS
    The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
  • ELIMINATE
    To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
  • PREFERMENT
    1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
  • ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
    Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
  • ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
    The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
  • ELECTRONIC
    Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
  • ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
    One versed in electro-biology.
  • PLUCKER TUBE
    A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
  • ELECTORATE
    1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
  • ELECTRICIAN
    An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
  • ELECTROLOGY
    That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
  • ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
    An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
  • ELECTROTYPE
    A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. Note: The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action
  • ELECTRO-GILDING
    The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
  • ELECTRO-POLAR
    Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
  • ELECTROTONIZE
    To cause or produce electrotonus.
  • ANELECTRIC
    Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
  • ENSWEEP
    To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
  • MEGATHEROID
    One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
  • PYROELECTRICITY
    Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.

 

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