Definition of extraction

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Extraction (n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

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Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus..
Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
Extraction :: Extraction (n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.
Part :: Part (n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver..
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..
Gentility :: Gentility (n.) Good extraction; dignity of birth.
Cerebrin :: Cerebrin (n.) A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance..
Ingenuous :: Ingenuous (a.) Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth..
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..
Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution.
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..
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..
Parentage :: Parentage (n.) Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage..
Extraction :: Extraction (n.) That which is extracted; extract; essence.
Birthless :: Birthless (a.) Of mean extraction.
Breeding :: Breeding (n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.
Nobly :: Nobly (adv.) Of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended..
Extreat :: Extreat (n.) Extraction.
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