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- Extract - 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.
- Extract - v. t. - To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
- Extract - v. t. - To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
- Extract - n. - That which is extracted or drawn out.
- Extract - n. - A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.
- Extract - 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.
- Extract - 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.
- Extract - n. - A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
- Extract - n. - Extraction; descent.
- Extract - n. - A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
- Extractable - a. - Alt. of Extractible
- Extracted - imp. & p. p. - of Extract
- Extractible - a. - Capable of being extracted.
- Extractiform - a. - Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.
- Extracting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Extract
- Extraction - n. - The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
- Extraction - n. - Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
- Extraction - n. - That which is extracted; extract; essence.
- Extractive - a. - Capable of being extracted.
- Extractive - a. - Tending or serving to extract or draw out.
- Extractive - n. - Anything extracted; an extract.
- Extractive - n. - A chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.
- Extractive - n. - Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.
- Extractor - n. - One who, or that which, extracts
- Extractor - n. - A forceps or instrument for extracting substances.
- Quintessence - n. - Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence.
- Estreat - v. t. - To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance.
- Aconitum - n. - The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it.
- Trunk - v. t. - To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9.
- Elixate - v. t. - To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.
- Beer - n. - A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
- Humulin - n. - An extract of hops.
- Decoction - n. - An extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
- Toothdrawer - n. - One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist.
- Infusion - v. t. - The liquid extract obtained by this process.
- Abstract - a. - A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance.
- Apothem - n. - A deposit formed in a liquid extract of a vegetable substance by exposure to the air.
- Ergotin - n. - An extract made from ergot.
- Quintessence - v. t. - To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.
- Distill - v. t. - To obtain by distillation; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water.
- Press - v. - To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something.
- Decoct - v. t. - To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.
- Render - v. t. - To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.
- Steep - v. t. - To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively.
- Aconite - n. - An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.
- Extractive - a. - Tending or serving to extract or draw out.
- Extract - 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.
- Pericope - n. - A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon.
- Logwood - n. - The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood.
- Extract - v. t. - To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
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- G1846 ἐξορύσσω - 1846 ἐξορύσσω - ἘΞΟΡΎΣΣΩ - - exorýssō - ex-or-oos'-so - from ἐκ and ὀρύσσω; to dig out, i.e. (by extension) to extract (an eye), remove (roofing):--break up, pluck out. - Verb - greek
- H7953 שָׁלָה - 7953 שָׁלָה - שָׁלָה - - shâlâh - shaw-law' - a primitive root (rather cognate (by contraction) to the base of נָשַׁל, שָׁלַל and their congeners through the idea of extracting); to draw out or off, i.e. remove (the soul by death); take away. - Verb - heb
- H8026 שֶׁלֶף - 8026 שֶׁלֶף - שֶׁלֶף - - sheleph - sheh'-lef - from שָׁלַף; extract; Sheleph, a son of Jokthan; Sheleph. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
- H2212 זָקַק - 2212 זָקַק - זָקַק - - zâqaq - zaw-kak' - a primitive root; to strain, (figuratively) extract, clarify; fine, pour down, purge, purify, refine. - Verb - heb