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Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.

To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.

A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.

Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.

Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country. Locke.

Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. "Homespun country garbs." W. Irving.

e (Min.), a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on fresh facture.

mmovable apparatus (Med.), an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable feasts (Eccl.), feasts which occur on a certain day of the year and do not depend on the date of Easter; as, Christmas, the Epiphany, etc.

Driven together or close. Impacted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the fragments are driven into each other so as to be immovable.

A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition. Kent.

Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole. [Obs.] Chapman.

of the microscopic plants called diatoms. It is used in polishing powder, and in the manufacture of dynamite.

Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. -- Triple ingrain carpet, a three-ply carpet.

A manufacturer of iron, or large dealer therein. Bp. Hurd.

To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.

One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers.

Jobbing house, a mercantile establishment which buys from importers, wholesalers or manufacturers, and sells to retailers. [U.S.]

A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.

Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.

The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine.