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A crime; an offense; an evil deed. [R.] Shak.

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

A female malefactor. Hawthorne.

See Malpractice.

Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results. [Written also malepractice.]

Manufacture. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to manufactures. [R.]

To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc.

One who manufactures.

Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town.

Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.

A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.

The production and working or manufacture of metals. [R.] R. Park.

In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria.

To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.

Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.

Wrong practice.

Having but one finger or claw.

The plea of the general issue in an action of debt on bond.

Not carrying on manufactures.