Tract

trakt, n. something drawn out or extended: continued duration: a region, area: a short treatise: an anthem sung instead of the Alleluia after the gradual, or instead of it, from Septuagesima till Easter-eve.— n. Tractabil′ity , quality or state of being tractable: docility.— adj. Trac′table , easily drawn, managed, or taught: docile.— n. Trac′table ne .— adv. Trac′tably .— n. Trac′tate , a treatise, tract.— adj. Trac′tile , that may be drawn out.— ns. Tractil′ity , the quality of being tractile: ductility; Trac′tion , act of drawing or state of being drawn; Trac′tion-en′gine , a steam vehicle for hauling heavy weights along a road, .— adj. Trac′tive , that draws or pulls.— ns. Trac′tor , that which draws, esp. in pl. metallic tractors, two bars of iron and of steel, drawn over diseased parts of the body to give supposed relief; Tractorā′tion , the use of metallic tractors in medicine. [L. tractus , pa.p. of trahĕre , to draw.]