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A kind of gate or portcullis, having iron bars, like a harrow, studded with iron spikes. It is hung above gateways so that it may be quickly lowered, to impede the advance of an enemy. Farrow.

on skin, the light and inferior leaves separated from the hyson by a winnowing machine. M'Culloch.

gate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded. M'Culloch.

To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out. "One man picked out of ten thousand." Shak.

To choose; to cull; to pick out. [Obs.] Herbert.

Of or pertaining to weight; as, a ponderary system. [R.] M'Culloch.

A portcullis. [Obs.]

One who cleans pots; a scullion. [Slang, U. S.]

Bald. [Obs.] "With scull all raw." Spencer

d-breasted merganser, or sheldrake. [Local, U.S.] -- Water robin (Zoöl.), a redstart (Ruticulla fuliginosa), native of India.

A portcullis, or herse. [Written also sarasin.]

o 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.

Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.

A sort of oar. See Scull. Skull and crossbones, a symbol of death. See Crossbones.

ll wares (Com.), various small textile articles, as tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. M`Culloch.

To choose from a number; to select; to cull. That he may sort out a worthy spouse. Chapman. I'll sort some other time to visit you. Shak.

of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern. MacCullummore's heart will be as cold as death can make it, when it does not warm to the tartan. Sir W. Scott. The sight of the tartan inflamed the populace of London with hatred. Macaulay.

a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread or cord made by three processes of twisting, first into singles, two or more of which are twisted together making dumb singles, and several of these twisted together to make thrown singles.…

of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted. M'Culloch.

enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value. M'Culloch. Value is the power to command commodities generally. A. L. Chapin (Johnson's Cys.). Value is the generic term which expresses power in exchange. F. A. Walker. His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, becau…