To draw out; as, to extract a tooth.

To draw out, as the juices or essence of a substance, by distillation, solution or other means; as, to extract spirit from the juice of the cane; to extract salts from ashes.

To take out; to take from. Woman is her name, of man\V) . Extracted.

To take out or select a part; to take a passage or passages from a book or writing. I have extracted from the pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.

In a general sense, to draw from by any means or operation.

That which is extracted or drawn from something.

In literature, a passage taken from a book or writing.

In pharmacy, any thing drawn from a substance, as essences, tinctures; or a solution of the purer parts of a mixed body inspissated by distillation or evaporation, nearly to the consistence of honey. Any substance obtained by digesting vegetable substances in water, and evaporating them to a solid consistence.

In chimistry, a peculiar principle, supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; called also the extractive principle.

Extraction; descent.