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Action. [Obs.] Shak.

A mazy winding.

connection of parts; manner of joining; construction. [Obs.] "With comely compass and compacture strong." Spenser.

A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.

Enactment; resolution. [Obs.] Shak.

The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. Bacon.

The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture. Comminuted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone is broken into several parts. -- Complicated fracture (Surg.), a fracture of the bone combined with the lesion of some artery, nervous trunk, or joint. --…

To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc.

One who manufactures.

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

A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.

The manufacture of glass and glassware.

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

of agriculture dealing with the methods of conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles; agricultural technology.

Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.

ety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.

rless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.

A disease due to inhaling the poisonous fumes present in the manufacture of aniline.

A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.

An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.