v track; trace.
2. tract ·v treatment; exposition.
3. tract ·v traits; features; lineaments.
4. tract ·v the footprint of a wild beast.
5. tract ·v something drawn out or extended; expanse.
6. tract ·v continued or protracted duration; length; extent.
7. tract ·v continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech.
8. tract ·v a region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea.
9. tract ·vt to trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.
10. tract ·noun a written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
11. tract ·v 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.