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s, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.

Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing. To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention. A. Hamilton. -- Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness, n.…

Heating; warming. [Obs.] Holland.

A building or place where anything is manufactured; a factory.

Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ (Anat.), an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part of the head and lined with epithelium innervated by the olfactory (or…

rom doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.

ment in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.

To make a satisfactory response or return. Hence: To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care. Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law. Shak.

Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson.

A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords. [U.S.]

the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement.

The round hole in the furnace of a glass manufactory through which the fused glass is taken out. Craig.

See Calefactory. [R.]

Of or pertaining to process of using the calorimeter. Satisfactory calorimetric results. Nichol.

Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for me." "Cold comfort." Shak.

retained till the end of his engagement, and paid over only if his conduct has been satisfactory.

An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.

Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support. Let him have your custom, but not your votes. Addison.