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noun

Factory n. (pl. factories)

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras."

The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.

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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Factory" Quotes from Famous Books

... There was a woollen-factory in the village, perhaps half a mile away, and they were off generally long before the children were up; and Maddie and Lolly usually ate such pickings as they left upon the table, and spent their days as they pleased, with little thought or ...

— Little Alice's Palace - or, The Sunny Heart • Anonymous

... a funny thing that the girl's name should be Bertha Blair," the young man said. "I heard you folks talking about her before, and I said something about it to our Mr. Blair at the factory. He's had a lot of trouble in his family. Never had any children, he and his wife, but always ...

— The Campfire Girls of Roselawn - A Strange Message from the Air • Margaret Penrose

... and when wealth in some of its most important forms has become wholly dissociated from special duties. The duties of the landlord who is surrounded by a poor and in some measure dependent tenantry, the duties of the head of a great factory or shop who has a large number of workmen or dependents in his employment, are sufficiently obvious, though even in these spheres the tie of duty has been greatly relaxed by the growing spirit of independence, which makes each class increasingly jealous of the interference of others, and by the growing ...

— The Map of Life - Conduct and Character • William Edward Hartpole Lecky

... institution for the disposition of milk is the Creamery, which is, in other words, a cheese factory. Here is brought the milk which the farmers themselves are unable properly to prepare for market, for want of cool springs or sufficient help. Received here, it is placed in deep but narrow tin pails holding twelve or fourteen quartz. ...

— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... strong opposition at the Cartridge Factory in the Avenue Rapp, and the Reds were only driven out at last by artillery being brought up, and shelling them out. After this Bruat pushed on, captured and occupied without resistance the Invalides, and the Palais Legislatif, opposite the Place de ...

— A Girl of the Commune • George Alfred Henty

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