EXTRAUGHT
Etymology
Verb
extraught
(obsolete) past participle of extract
Source: Wiktionary
Ex`traught", p. p. of Extract. Etym: [Cf. Distraught.]
Definition: Extracted; descended. [Obs.]
Knowing whence thou art extraught Shak.
EXTRACT
Ex*tract", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extracted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Extracting.] Etym: [L. extractus, p. p. of extrahere to extract; ex
out + trahere to draw. See Trace, and cf. Estreat.]
1. 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.
2. To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or
chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6.
Sunbeams may be extracted from cucumbers, but the process is tedious.
3. To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a
passage from a book.
I have extracted out of that pamphlet a few notorious falsehoods.
Swift.
To extract the root (Math.), to ascertain the root of a number or
quantity.
Ex"tract`, n.
1. That which is extracted or drawn out.
2. A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a
citation; a quotation.
3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any
substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic
virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any
substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is
obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
4. (Med.)
Definition: A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a
drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an
abstract. See Abstract, n., 4.
5. (Old Chem.)
Definition: A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the
basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive
principle. [Obs.]
6. Extraction; descent. [Obs.] South.
7. (Scots Law)
Definition: A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings
in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
Tomlins. Fluid extract (Med.), a concentrated liquid preparation,
containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a
medicinal substance. At present a fluid gram of extract should
represent a gram of the crude drug.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition