Extract

eks-trakt′, v.t. to draw out by force or otherwise: to choose out or select: to find out: to distil.— n. Ex′tract , anything drawn from a substance by heat, distillation, ., as an e ence: a pa age taken from a book or writing.— adjs. Extract′able , Extract′ible ; Extract′iform .— n. Extrac′tion , act of extracting: derivation from a stock or family: birth: lineage: that which is extracted.— adj. Extract′ive , tending or serving to extract.— n. an extract.— n. Extract′or , he who, or that which, extracts.— Extract the root of a quantity , to find its root by a mathematical proce ; Extractive matter , the soluble portions of any drug. [L. extrahĕre , extractum — ex , out, trahĕre , to draw.]