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Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous. Addison.

A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.

Excessive; extravagant; inordinate. [Obs.]

Of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended.

A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.

Destitute of vessels; extravascular.

A sentiment; an opinion. The extravagant notion they entertain of themselves. Addison. A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity. J. H. Newman.

An extraordinary nova which appeared in Perseus in 1901. It was first sighted on February 22, and for one night (February 23) was the brightest star in the sky. By July it had almost disappeared, after which faint surrounding nebulous masses were discovered, apparently moving radially outward from the star at incredibl…

has been taken or mentioned; indefinitely, but not greatly, exceeding a specified number; extra. Sixteen hundred and odd years after the earth was made, it was destroyed in a deluge. T. Burnet. There are yet missing of your company Some few odd lads that you remember not. Shak.

A liquid or semiliquid preparation extracted (as from capsicum, cubebs, or ginger) by means of ether, and consisting of fixed or volatile oil holding resin in solution. -- O`le*o*res"in*ous, a.

A white crystalline waxy substance extracted from the root of the leguminous plant Ononis spinosa.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a substance (called ophelic acid) extracted from a plant (Ophelia) of the Gentian family as a bitter yellowish sirup, used in India as a febrifuge and tonic.

3.CH3.(OH)2, which is obtained from certain lichens (Roccella, Lecanora, etc.), also from extract of aloes, and artificially from certain derivatives of toluene. It changes readily into orcein.

ably consisting of one or several of the class of nitrogenous substances which are called extractives.

To draw out; to extract. [R.] "He must the teeth outdraw." Gower.

Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre.

A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.

To stand on the price or conditions of, so as to lose a sale; to lose by an extravagant price or hard conditions. [Obs.] What madman would o'erstand his market twice Dryden.

Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.

Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.