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Manufacture. [Obs.]

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

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

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.

f goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory. Factory leg (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.

A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.

A manufactory where nails are made.

A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory.

(c) To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to set up a school. (d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a son in trade. (e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark. (f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice. I'll set up such a note a…

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