·noun Extraction; descent.
II. Extract ·noun That which is extracted or drawn out.
III. Extract ·noun A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
IV. Extract ·vt To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
V. Extract ·noun A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts;
— called also the extractive principle.
VI. Extract ·noun A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
VII. Extract ·vt To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. ·cf. Abstract, ·vt, 6.
VIII. Extract ·noun 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, ·noun, 4.
IX. Extract ·vt 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.
X. Extract ·noun 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.