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Webster's English Dictionary

extract

v. t. [L. extractus, p. p. of extrahere to extract; ex out + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. Estreat.]1. 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. ()

The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet. (Milton.)

2. To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6. ()

Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious. ()

3. To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book. ()

I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods. (Swift.)

To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or quantity. ()

n. 1. That which is extracted or drawn out. ()

2. A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation. ()

3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by dissolving 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. ()

4. (Med.) 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. ()

5. (Old Chem.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle. ()

6. Extraction; descent. (South.)

7. (Scots Law) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution. (Tomlins.)

Fluid extract (Med.), a concentrated liquid preparation, containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a medicinal substance. At present a fluid gram of extract should represent a gram of the crude drug. ()

a. Capable of being extracted. ()