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To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.

One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.

Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting. from consumers' goods.

f involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain. There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages. Milton. These institutions are the products of enthusiasm. Burke.

f one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting. Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles Rowe.

One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. For whatsoever mother wit or art Could work, he put in proof. Spenser. You shall have many proofs to show your skill. Ford. Formerly, a very rude mode of ascertaining the strength of spirits was prac…

ley. Formed in the best proportions of her sex. Sir W. Scott. Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory. Macaulay.

ietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. U. S. Statutes.

The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain.

ommon-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.

To evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence. They have inferred much from slender premises, and conjectured when they could not prove. J. H. Newman.

A negotiator; a factor. [R.] Dr. H. More.

One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.

To take without opposition or expressed dissatisfaction; to endure; as, to put up with bad fare.

Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.

Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as, a putrescent smell.

Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances.

A nontoxic diamine, C4H12N2, formed in the putrefaction of the flesh of mammals and some other animals.

ay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.