the Seventh Week after Easter
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Dictionaries
Extract
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
(2):
(n.) That which is extracted or drawn out.
(3):
(v. t.) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
(4):
(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.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(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.
(7):
(n.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; - called also the extractive principle.
(8):
(n.) Extraction; descent.
(9):
(n.) A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
(10):
(n.) A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
These files are public domain.
Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. Used by Permission.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Extract'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/extract.html. 1828.
