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o 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.

Onanism; self-pollution.

A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen. A tree may be maturated artificially. Fuller.

The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe. Now is love mature in ear. Tennison. How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age Pope.…

In a mature manner; with ripeness; completely.

The state or quality of being mature; maturity.

One who brings to maturity.

Approaching maturity.

Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.

The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.

Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull. -- n.

Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind. [R.]

Commerce; traffic; trade. [Obs.]

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

The act of voiding urine; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.