•A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.•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.•To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact.

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