Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-TRACT', n.

1. That which is extracted or drawn from something.
2. In literature, a passage taken from a book or writing. Camden.
3. In pharmacy, any thing drawn from a substance, as essences, tinctures, &c; or a solution of the purer parts of a mixed body inspissated by distillation or evaporation, nearly to the consistence of honey. Encyc. Quincy. Any substance obtained by digesting vegetable substances in water or alcohol, and evaporating them to a solid consistence. Brande.
4. An inspissated, expressed or exuded juice.
5. In chimistry; a peculiar principle supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; called also the extractive principle. Brande.
6. Extraction; descent. [Not now used.] South.