manufactural (manufaktural)

[ prop. as two words, manu fact us, made by hand: manu, abl. of manus, hand; fact us, pp. of facere, make: see main3, manual, and facture.] 1. The operation of making goods or wares of any kind; the production of articles for use from raw or prepared materials by giving to these materials new forms, qualities, properties, or combinations, whether by hand-labor or by machinery: used more especially of production in a large way by machinery or by many hands working coöperatively. They have here [at Antab] a considerable manufacture of coarse stamped callicoes. Pococke , Description of the East, II. 1. 155. By means of trade and manufactures a greater quantity of subsistence can be annually imported into a particular their cultivation, could afford. 1. An old and disused name for a bird of Paradise. The male and female Manucordiata [read manucodiata ?], the male having a hollow in the back, in which it is reported the female both lays and hatches her eggs. Evelyn, Diary, Feb. 4, 1645. 2. [ cap.] A genus of Paradise birds established by Bri on in 1760, equivalent to the Linnean genus Paradise a. Two species were included by Bri on under this generic name, Manucodiata major and M. minor, corresponding respectively to the Paradise a apod a and P. regia of Linnæus, neither of which pertains to the later genus Manucodia. [Not in use.] Manucodiinæ (man-u-kō-di-i'nē), n. pl. [NL.,