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ll 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.

soluble parts of a substance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this sense extract is now more generally used.

An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally. Winter aconite, a plant (Eranthis hyemalis) allied to the aconites.

An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite.

The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder. Shak.

A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.

yn. Carum Ajowan, used both as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

A dyeing matter extracted from the roots of Alkanna tinctoria, which gives a fine deep red color.

To keep in extraction; to beguile; to delude. He amused his followers with idle promises. Johnson.

A glucoside extracted from bitter almonds as a white, crystalline substance.

Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets. He published a geographical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.