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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Factory \Fac"to*ry\, n.; pl {Factories} (-r?z). [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.
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