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n distinction from a portable engine, locomotive, marine engine, etc. Specifically: (b) A factory engine, in distinction from a blowing, pumping, or other kind of engine which is also permanently placed.

ny important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty. One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe. Burke.

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

ut. Macaulay. A sum in arithmetic wherein a flaw discovered at a particular point is ipso facto fatal to the whole. Gladstone. A large sheet of paper . . . covered with long sums. Dickens. Algebraic sum, as distinguished from arithmetical sum, the aggregate of two or more numbers or quantities taken with regard to thei…

or indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.

One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. Milton.

ird person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.]

inate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.

Not easy; difficult. [R.] Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood. Boyle. The road will be uneasy to find. Sir W. Scott.

The turning factor of a quaternion.

One who deals in grain; a corn factor. [Scot.] Licensed victualer. See under Licensed.

Any theory which conceives will to be the dominant factor in experience or in the constitution of the world; -- contrasted with intellectualism. Schopenhauer and Fichte are typical exponents of the two types of metaphysical voluntarism, Schopenhauer teaching that the evolution of the universe is the activity of a blind…

Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant. [R.] The wealthy witness of my pen. B. Jonson.

In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favorably; advantageously; conveniently. "It boded well to you." Dryden. Know In measure what the mind may well contain. Milton. All the world speaks well of you. Pope.

One who does well; one who does good to another; a benefactor.

ce of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor. Writer of the tallies (Eng. Law), an officer of the exchequer of England, who acted as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from the tellers' bills. The use of tallies in the exchequ…