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

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.

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.

h 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.

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

orless, 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.

A rich kind of satin manufactured in India. Brande & C.

value of; to make less complex; to weaken. To undersell our rivals . . . has led the manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. I. Taylor. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.

Unconscious or automatic reasoning. H. Spenser. Automatic arts, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery. Ure.

A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray.

A by-product from the manufacture of steel by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called also Thomas slag, phosphatic slag, and odorless phosphate.

A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.