Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.