Definition of extraction

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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..

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Extraction :: Extraction (n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
Birth :: Birth (n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction..
Birthless :: Birthless (a.) Of mean extraction.
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..
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..
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.
Nephrotomy :: Nephrotomy (n.) Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.
Breeding :: Breeding (n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.
Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus..
New :: New (superl.) Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous..
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..
Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
Hellenist :: Hellenist (n.) One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1)..
Gentility :: Gentility (n.) Good extraction; dignity of birth.
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..
Part :: Part (n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver..
Extraction :: Extraction (n.) That which is extracted; extract; essence.
Descent :: Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction..
Extreat :: Extreat (n.) Extraction.
Chlorination :: Chlorination (n.) The act or process of subjecting anything to the action of chlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold by exposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas..
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