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The business of a factor.

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.

An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.

One who infracts or infringes; a violator; a breaker.

Lactiferous. [Obs.] "Lactory or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.

An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

A building or place where anything is manufactured; a factory.

A smelling organ; a nose. [R.]

Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ (Anat.), an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part of the head and lined with epithelium innervated by the olfactory (or…

A muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to retractor.

A choking coil.

One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. Carlyle.

Anything that refracts; specifically: (Opt.)

In a refractory manner; perversely; obstinately.

The quality or condition of being refractory.

Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast. Raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory. Shak.

One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically:

om doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.

One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.

A detractor; a slanderer. [Obs.] Shak.