A small part or piece; spec. a division or section of a discourse.

An act of extracting or withdrawing. Also: an excerpt or abstract (from a document, etc.).

A passage of a writing; an extract. Obsolete.

An indefinite portion of a discourse or writing; a ‘passage’. Now only (with approach to sense 6), a short passage of Scripture in liturgical use.

gen. A paragraph, section, or distinct item in a document; a distinct item in a book or other publication, esp. one composed of such items.

A particular passage in a book or document, separately considered, or bearing upon a particular subject; an extract. Obsolete.

Rhetoric. A division or clause of a sentence or (occasionally) of a longer piece of text; a branch of a disjunctive proposition. Now rare.

A piece or section of a literary or (less commonly) musical work removed from its context; spec. an extract from a text selected for translation…

Something extracted; an extract; = extract, n. 2 4.

concrete. An extract from a book, document, etc. Also, formerly, a collection of extracts. The Excerptions of Egbert: a work with the title Excerp…

A passage taken out of a printed book or manuscript; an extract, quotation, selection.

Literary or philosophical fragments or extracts; (a name for) a collection of such extracts, an anthology. Also occasionally in singular (in form an…

concrete. An extracted passage, quotation; = extract, n. 4. Obsolete.

A passage copied out of a book, manuscript, etc.; an excerpt, quotation.

A particular choice; choice of a particular individual or individuals; concrete the (†person or) thing selected; a number of selected (†persons or)…

Apparently: a single sheet of a literary work. Only in attributive use. Obsolete. rare.

An extract from a previously printed source. In plural: a selection of extracts collected in a volume, or intended to be read together.

Scottish. A section of a literary work. Obsolete.

A small section.

spec. A short passage taken from a literary work; a short scrap of literary matter of any kind.