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To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown /or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.

To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay.

Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson.

A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. [U.S.]

the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement.

An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.

The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.

A place of confinement for malefactors Shak. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. Lovelace.

See Calefactory. [R.]

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter. Satisfactory calorimetric results. Nichol.

An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.

The operation of striking out common factora, in both the dividend and divisor.

A standing still or idle (of mills, factories, etc.).

h church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors. Bulwer.

A number, commonly used in computation as a factor, expressing the amount of some change or effect under certain fixed conditions as to temperature, length, volume, etc.; as, the coefficient of expansion; the coefficient of friction. Arbitrary coefficient (Math.), a literal coefficient placed arbitrarily in an algebrai…

Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort." Shak.