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Webster 1913 Edition
Factory
Fac′to-ry
,Noun.
pl.
Factories
(-rĭz)
. [Cf. F.
factorerie
.] 1.
A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.
“The Company’s factory at Madras.” Burke.
2.
The body of factors in any place;
as, a chaplain to a British
. factory
W. Guthrie.
3.
A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Factory
FAC'TORY
, n.1.
A house or place where factors reside, to transact business for their employers. The English merchants have factories in the East Indies, Turkey, Portugal, Hamburg, &c.2.
The body of factors in any place; as a chaplain to a British factory.3.
Contracted frommanufactory, a building or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares or utensils.