Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Select \Se*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Selected}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Selecting}.]
   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.