Definition of extraction

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Extraction (n.) That which is extracted; extract; essence.

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Wet :: Wet (superl.) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed..
Birthless :: Birthless (a.) Of mean extraction.
Damsel :: Damsel (n.) A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales..
Ingenuous :: Ingenuous (a.) Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth..
Extract :: Extract (n.) Extraction; descent.
Nobly :: Nobly (adv.) Of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended..
Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
Descent :: Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction..
Extraction :: Extraction (n.) 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..
Cystotomy :: Cystotomy (n.) The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus..
Nephrotomy :: Nephrotomy (n.) Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.
Part :: Part (n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver..
Birth :: Birth (n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction..
New :: New (superl.) Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous..
Extreat :: Extreat (n.) Extraction.
Breeding :: Breeding (n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.
Extractive :: Extractive (n.) 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..
Period :: Period (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals..
Gentility :: Gentility (n.) Good extraction; dignity of birth.
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