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To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person. No law can bind till it be notified or promulged. Sowth.

A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.

A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors. Shak.

The act of recognizing and noting some fact or occurrence in nature, as an aurora, a corona, or the structure of an animal.

e more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things. The fact that it [a belief] invariably exists being the obverse of the fact that there is no alternative belief. H. Spencer.

run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.

The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness. She threw the odium of the fact on me. Dryden. Odium theologicum ( Etym: [L.], the enmity peculiar to contending theologians.

thus defined it is called the international ohm. Ohm's law (Elec.), the statement of the fact that the strength or intensity of an electrical current is directly proportional to the electro-motive force, and inversely proportional to the resistance of the circuit.

Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.

In cost accounting, expenditure which is involved in the process of manufacture or the performance of work and which cannot be charged directly to any particular article manufactured or work done (as where different kinds of goods are produced), but must be allocated so that each kind of goods or work shall bear its pr…

an adversative used elliptically with or without that, and properly introducing a single fact or consideration. He might have seemed some secretary or clerk . . . only that his low, flat, unadorned cap . . . indicated that he belonged to the city. Sir W. Scott.

tory furnace; esp., a kind of reverberatory furnace in which the fuel is gas, used in manufacturing steel. -- Open-hearth process (Steel Manuf.), a process by which melted cast iron is converted into steel by the addition of wrought iron, or iron ore and manganese, and by exposure to heat in an open-hearth furnace; --…

A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause.

Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.

ne, especially for ascertaining the number of rotations made by a machine or wheel in manufacturing cloth; a counter. Ure.

A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory.

pertains to, or serves for; as in ambulatory, that which serves for walking; consistory, factory, etc.

The olfactory organ of some Mollusca. It is connected with the organ of respiration.

uninclosed or unexplored tract. Also used figuratively. The great outfield of thought or fact. Trench.

re different departments in a business; -- called also fixed, establishment, or (in a manufacturing business) administration, selling, and distribution, charges, etc.