Defn: 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.
SELECTEDLY
Se*lect"ed*ly, adv.
Defn: With care and selection. [R.]
SELECTION
Se*lec"tion, n. Etym: [L. selectio: cf. F. sélection.] .
Defn: The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. (Biol.) See under Natural.
SELECTIVE
Se*lect"ive, a.
Defn: Selecting; tending to select.
This selective providence of the Almighty. Bp. Hall.
SELECTMAN
Se*lect"man, n.; pl. Selectmen (.
Defn: One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town. The system of delegated town action was then, perhaps, the same which was defined in an "order made in 1635 by the inhabitants of Charlestown at a full meeting for the government of the town, by selectmen;" the name presently extended throughout New England to municipal governors. Palfrey.