To cull or excerpt from (a book, etc.) its choice or most valuable parts. Obsolete.

transitive. To extract (a passage of text) from a larger work; spec. to produce (a written account) by (in early use) editing and expanding…

transitive. To cull out (passages, phrases, etc.); to take out as an extract; to extract, quote. Also absol. to make extracts.

= excerpt, v. 1.

esp. To copy out (a passage in a book, etc.); also, to make extracts from (a book).

figurative. In various applications; esp. to get out the essential contents of (a book); to extract all the important passages of (a book) in a…

In lit. sense: To take out, extract, excerpt.

transitive. To cut with scissors or shears, often with the notion of making trim and tidy. Also (chiefly U.S.), to cut out (a passage) from a…