| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| extance | noun | Outward existence. |
| extancy | noun | The state of rising above others; a projection. |
| extatic | adjective | See Ecstatic, a. |
| extense | verb t. | Outreaching; expansive; extended, superficially or otherwise. |
| externe | noun | An officer in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it; esp., one who cares for the out-patients. |
| extinct | adjective | Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano., Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law., To cause to be extinct. |
| extract | verb t. | 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., To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence. Cf. Abstract, v. t., 6., To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book., That which is extracted or drawn out., A portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation., 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., 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., A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; — called also the extractive principle., Extraction; descent., A draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution. |
| extreat | noun | Extraction. |
| extreme | adjective | At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit., Last; final; conclusive; — said of time; as, the extreme hour of life., The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly., Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions., Extended or contracted as much as possible; — said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth., The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity., Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; — often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet., An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc., Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them., The first or the last term of a proportion or series. |
| extruct | verb t. | To construct. |
| extrude | verb t. | To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away. |