Extract(n.) That which is extracted or drawn out.
Extract(n.) A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
Extract(n.) A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
Extract(n.) A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.
Extract(n.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
Extract(n.) Extraction; descent.
Extract(n.) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
Extract(v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.
Extract(v. t.) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
Extract(v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
Extractable(a.) Alt. of Extractible
Extracted(imp. & p. p.) of Extract
Extractible(a.) Capable of being extracted.
Extracting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extract
Extraction(n.) The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
Extraction(n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
Extraction(n.) That which is extracted; extract; essence.
Extractive(a.) Capable of being extracted.
Extractive(a.) Tending or serving to extract or draw out.
Extractive(n.) Anything extracted; an extract.
Extractive(n.) A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.
Extractive(n.) Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.
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