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Meaning of 'tract' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Tract [ n.]
- A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
2 . Tract [ v.]
- Something drawn out or extended; expanse.
- A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea.
- Traits; features; lineaments.
- The footprint of a wild beast.
- Track; trace.
- Treatment; exposition.
- Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech.
- Continued or protracted duration; length; extent.
- 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.
3 . Tract [ v. t.]
- To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.

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