[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

manufacture \man`ufac"ture\, v. t. imp.  p. p.
   manufactured; p. pr.  vb. n. manufacturing. cf. f.
   manufacturer.
   1. to make wares or other products by hand, by machinery,
      or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails,
      glass, etc.
      1913 webster

   2. to work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable
      forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or
      iron.
      1913 webster
see also:
manufactured manufacturing 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

manufacture \man`ufac"ture\, n. l. manus the hand + factura a
   making, fr. facere to make: cf. f. manufacture. see manual,
   and fact.
   1. the operation of making wares or any products by hand, by
      machinery, or by other agency.
      1913 webster

   2. anything made from raw materials by the hand, by
      machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes,
      machinery, saddlery, etc.
      1913 webster
see also:
manual fact 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

manufacture \man`ufac"ture\, v. i.
   to be employed in manufacturing something.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

manufacture
     n 1: the organized action of making of goods and services for
          sale; "american industry is making increased use of
          computers to control production" syn: industry
     2: the act of making something a product from raw materials;
        "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals"; "an
        improvement in the manufacture of explosives";
        "manufacturing is vital to great britain" syn: fabrication
     v 1: put together out of components or parts; "the company
          fabricates plastic chairs"; "they manufacture small
          toys" syn: fabricate, construct
     2: make up something artificial or untrue syn: fabricate, cook
        up, make up, invent
see also:
industry fabrication fabricate construct cook up make up 
invent 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

186 moby thesaurus words for "manufacture":
   anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, artifact,
   assemble, assembly, basic training, brainchild, briefing, build,
   building, cast, casting, child, clearing the decks, coinage,
   compose, composition, compound, concoct, concoction, conformation,
   constitution, construct, construction, contrive, conversion,
   cook up, counterfeit, crafting, craftsmanship, create, creation,
   creature, crowning achievement, cultivation, devise, devising,
   distillation, effect, elaborate, elaboration, end product,
   equipment, erect, erection, essence, evolve, extract, extraction,
   extrude, fabric, fabricate, fabrication, fake, familiarization,
   fantasize, fashion, fashioning, fixing, forge, forging, form,
   format, formation, forming, formulate, formulation, foundation,
   frame, framing, fruit, fudge, fudge together, get up, getup,
   groundwork, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, hatch,
   hoke up, indite, invent, invention, issue, machining, make,
   make up, makeready, makeup, making, making ready, manufacturing,
   mass production, mass-produce, masterpiece, masterwork, mature,
   milling, mining, mintage, mobilization, mold, molding, new mintage,
   offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, organic structure, organism,
   organization, originate, origination, outcome, outgrowth,
   patch together, pattern, patterning, physique, piece together,
   plan, planning, prearrangement, prefabricate, prefabrication,
   preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step,
   prep, preparation, preparatory study, prepare, preparing, prepping,
   prerequisite, pretreatment, processing, produce, producing,
   product, production, propaedeutic, provision, put together, put up,
   putting out, putting together, raise, raising, readying, rear,
   refining, result, run up, set up, setup, shape, shaping, smelting,
   spadework, structure, structuring, tectonics, texture, think up,
   tissue, training, treatment, trial, trump up, tryout, turn out,
   turning out, warm-up, warp and woof, weave, web, whomp up, work,
   workmanship, write

[6] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

manufacture. this word is used in the english and american patent laws. this 
term includes two classes of things; first, all machinery which is to be 
used and is not the object of sale; and, secondly, substances such, for 
example, as medicines formed by chemical processes, when the  vendible 
substance is the thing produced, and that which operates preserves no 
permanent form. in the first class, the machine, and, in the second the 
substance produced, is the subject of the patent. 2 h. bl. 492. see 8 t. r. 
99; 2 b.  a. 349; day. pat. cas. 278; webst. on pat. 8; phil. on pat. 77; 
perp. manuel des inv. c. 2, s. 1; renouard, c. 5, s. 1; westminster review, 
no. 44, april 1835, p. 247; 1 bell's com., b. 1, part 2, c. 4, s. 1, p. 110, 
6th ed. 

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