Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EX-TRA'NE-OUS, a. [L. extraneus.]

Foreign; not belonging to a thing; existing without; not intrinsic; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter. Relation is not contained in the real existence of things, but is extraneous and superinduced. Locke. Extraneous fossils, organic remains; exuviæ of organized beings, imbedded in the strata of the earth. Cyc.