 | W. M. Buchanan - Science - 1846 - 768 pages
...have/ac(ortes in China, Turkey, Portugal, Hamburg, Russia, &c. The Word factory is now also used for a building or collection of buildings appropriated to the manufacture of goods ; but in this sense it is a contraction of manufactory. FAC'TUM (Lat.), something made. In arithmetic,... | |
 | English language - 1871 - 1024 pages
...factors reside to transact business for their employers;; — the body of factors in any placo; — a building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods ; a manufactory. Factotum, (fak-tö'tum) n. [L. do every thing.] A person employed to do all kinds of work. Faculty,... | |
 | English language - 1872 - 406 pages
...Made by art, in dutinction from what is produced by nature; artificial. FACULTY where factors reside to transact business for their employers;— [Contracted...Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; especially, an original mental power or capacity , — a body of men to whom any specific right or... | |
 | Reference books - 1884 - 718 pages
...multiplier and multiplicand. In Alg. any expression considered as part of a product. Factory, to-ri. A building or collection of buildings appropriated to the manufacture of goods , the place where workers are employed in fabricating goods, wares or utensils In Great Britain, associations... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 628 pages
...factory building stands. The word factory is a contraction of manufactory, which Webster defines to be "a building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods," but a manufactory is something more than a building. It includes not only the building, but the machinery... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 554 pages
...1884, it is said: "The word 'factory' is a contraction of manufactory, which Webster defines to be a building or collection of buildings appropriated to the manufacture of goods. But a manufactory is something more than a building. It includes not only the building, but the machinery... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 944 pages
...building stands. The word " factory " is a contraction of manufactory, which Webster defines to be a building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods. But a manufactory is something more than a building. It includes not only the building, buc the machinery... | |
 | Ki Chiu Kwong, Kwang Ki-Chaou - Chinese language - 1887 - 918 pages
...building in which goods are sold ; a room or building in which mechanics work.] l&yfriM Eactory or Manufactory |a building or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods, the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils.] Vffc'f^ Foreign hong... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1320 pages
...to practical questions. The word "factory" is a contraction of "manufactory," which is defined to be a building or collection of buildings appropriated to the manufacture of goods. 12 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, 705. It is the appropriation of a building to the manufacture of goods... | |
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The word factory is a contraction of manufactory, which Webster defines to be "a building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods," but a manufactory is something more than a building. 
