To draw; draw out; protract; waste.To trace; track; follow.n. Extent; a continued passage or duration; process; lapse: used chiefly in the phrase tract of time.n. Course or route; track; way.n. Course or movement; action.n. Attractive influence; attraction; charm.n. Extent; expanse; hence, a region of indefinite extent; a more or less extended area or stretch of land or water: as, a tract of woodland.n. Trait; lineament; feature.n. In anatomy, an area or expanse; the extension of an organ or a system: as, the digestive or alimentary tract; the optic tract. Also called tractus (which see).n. In ornithology, a pteryla, or feathered place: distinguished from space.n. In heraldry, same as tressure.n. The air-passages collectively.To handle; treat.Hence To discourse or treat of; describe; delineate.n. A short treatise, discourse, or dissertation; especially, a brief printed treatise or discourse on some topic of practical religion.n. In the Roman and some other Western liturgies, an anthem consisting of verses from Scripture (generally from the Psalms), sung instead of the Alleluia after the gradual, or instead of the gradual, from Septuagesima till Easter eve: so called from being sung ‘continuously’ (tractim) by the cantor without interruption of other voices. Also tractus.n. Track; footprint.