That which is extracted or drawn from something.

1. In literature, a passage taken from a book or writing.

2. In pharmacy, any thing drawn from a substance, as essences, tinctures, etc.; or a solution of the purer parts of a mixed body inspissated by distillation or evaporation, nearly to the consistence of honey.

Any substance obtained by digesting vegetable substances in water, and evaporating them to a solid consistence.

3. In chimistry, a peculiar principle, supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; called also the extractive principle.

4. Extraction; descent. [Not now used.]