Both Uses
cull
in
Romeo and Juliet
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- No, madam, we have culled such necessaries
As are behooveful for our state tomorrow.
So please you, let me now be left alone,
And let the Nurse this night sit up with you,
For I am sure you have your hands full all
In this so sudden business.†p. 191.3 - I do remember an apothecary—
And hereabouts he dwells,—which late I noted
In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Culling of simples. ...p. 213.7 *culling = selecting from among many
Definitions:
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(1)
(cull) to select from among many -- sometimes what is desired; sometimes to eliminate that which is not wanted
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)