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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tract \Tract\, v. t. To trace out to track; also to draw out to protact. [Obs.] --Spenser. --B. Jonson From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tract \Tract\, n. [L. tractus a drawing, train, track, course, tract of land, from trahere tractum to draw. Senses 4 and 5 are perhaps due to confusion with track. See {Trace},v., and cf {Tratt}.] 1. Something drawn out or extended; expanse. ``The deep tract of hell.'' --Milton. 2. A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as an unexplored tract of sea. A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth. --Addison. 3. Traits; features; lineaments. [Obs.] The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness. --Bacon. 4. The footprint of a wild beast. [Obs.] --Dryden. 5. Track; trace. [Obs.] Efface all tract of its traduction. --Sir T. Browne. But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon, Leaving no tract behind. --Shak. 6. Treatment; exposition. [Obs.] --Shak. 7. Continuity or extension of anything as the tract of speech. [Obs.] --Older. 8. Continued or protracted duration; length; extent. ``Improved by tract of time.'' --Milton. 9. (R. C. Ch.) Verses of Scripture sung at Mass, instead of the Alleluia, from Septuagesima Sunday till the Saturday befor Easter; -- so called because sung tractim or without a break, by one voice, instead of by many as in the antiphons. Syn: Region; district; quarter; essay; treatise; dissertation. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tract \Tract\, n. [Abbrev.fr. tractate.] A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion. The church clergy at that time writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. --Swift. {Tracts for the Times}. See {Tractarian}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tract n 1: an extended area of land [syn: {piece of land}, {piece of ground}, {parcel of land}, {parcel}] 2: a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose 3: a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet [syn: {pamphlet}] 4: a bundle of nerve fibers following a path through the brain [syn: {nerve pathway}, {nerve tract}, {pathway}]
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