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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.

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

Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction. Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. Prescott.

Of mean extraction. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs.] Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. Shak. Close breeding, In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. -- Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. -- Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment.…

A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.

r process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.

An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. Dunglison.

or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.

A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales. [Obs.]

The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction. Dryden.

The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.

Extraction; descent. [Obs.] South.

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.

Extraction. [Obs.] Spenser.

Good extraction; dignity of birth. Macaulay. He . . . mines my gentility with my education. Shak.

One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1).

Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.