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Distractive. [Obs.]

Causing perplexity; distracting. "Distractive thoughts." Bp. Hall.

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. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet. Milton.

Capable of being extracted.

Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.

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.

Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." Kirwan.

One who, or that which, extracts; as:

used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.

An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.

Not abstracted.

Uncontracted. [Obs.] Blackwall.

The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.

Not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.

Not tractile; incapable of being drawn out or extended. Bacon.

Not retractile.

To contract, engage, or stipulate previously.

To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.

Prolonged; continued. Protracted meeting,a religious meeting continued for many successive days. [U. S.] -- Pro*tract"ed*ly, adv. -- Pro*tract"ed*ness, n.

A protractor.