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Factory

Origin: 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.

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

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.

(Science: medicine) factory leg, a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in young children by working in factories.


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... are going to help. If the kind of help you are looking for is ready made essays, sorry you are not Duchamp, and this is not a bathroom appliance factory.

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... up under the kneecap. Very odd, and I still have no idea how I did it. Could also be emotional (believe it or not), everything ok in the old cog-factory lately? If it was nerve-related then you'd expect the arms to be affected too...but to tell you the truth Im not a Doctor (yet).

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own lab at home... you mean starting home-made protein factory? :) there should be some restrictions as to keeping bacteria (i.e. GMO) out of the laboratory - right?

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