(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.
(v. t.) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other
mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf.
Abstract, v. t., 6.
(v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote,
as a passage from a book.
(n.) That which is extracted or drawn out.
(n.) A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a
citation; a quotation.
(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.
(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.
(n.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the
basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive
principle.
(n.) Extraction; descent.
(n.) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the
proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for
execution.
