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noun

Tract n. 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."

Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.

Tract n.

1.

Something drawn out or extended; expanse. "The deep tract of hell."

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."

3.

Traits; features; lineaments. (Obs.) "The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness."

4.

The footprint of a wild beast. (Obs.)

5.

Track; trace. (Obs.) "Efface all tract of its traduction." "But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon, Leaving no tract behind."

6.

Treatment; exposition. (Obs.)

7.

Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech. (Obs.)

8.

Continued or protracted duration; length; extent. "Improved by tract of time."

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.

Synonyms: Region; district; quarter; essay; treatise; dissertation.

verb

Tract v. t. To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tract" Quotes from Famous Books

... or other he was the owner of the most desirable parts of Fentress county. He held title to the land upon which Jamestown, the county seat, now stands, which is the "Obedstown" of Mark Twain's "Gilded Age." He owned "Rock Castle," a tract of hardwood timber that is enclosed by mountains and can be reached by but one passageway, a place that became famous during the Civil War. He bought and sold much of the county's ...

— Sergeant York And His People • Sam Cowan

... ago there lived in a lonely hut on Mount Mitchell in North Carolina this identical Grimmel and his brothers. Their father, John Boyer, was a hunter. When he died the two elder sons, Richard and Hugh, remained with their mother, farmed a sterile tract on the Black Mountains and trapped bears and wolves through the great southern ranges of the Appalachian chain. Twice in the year they came down to the hamlet at Gray Eagle to exchange their peltry for such goods as they ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various

... individual reserves, distributed as shown in Fig. 137 and cared for by the Forest Service, a bureau in the Department of Agriculture. Each of the forests is in charge of a supervisor. He has with him a professional forester and a body of men who patrol the tract against fire and the illegal cutting of timber. Some of the men are engaged in planting trees on the open areas and others in studying the important forest problems ...

— Studies of Trees • Jacob Joshua Levison

... Paragon chestnut. In 1897 I started in on a 100-acre tract on the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Bluemont, Va., much of it too rocky for any cultivated crop, but admirably fitted to native chestnuts, and covered with a perfect stand. I had a good many acres ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting • Various

... take all of a couple of thousand acres and will close now if you give them half a chance. That Fairmount section is the cream of it, and they'll dig up as high as a thousand dollars an acre for a part of it. That'll help out some. That five-hundred acre tract beyond, you'll be lucky if they pay two ...

— Burning Daylight • Jack London

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