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.
FACTOTUM Fac*to"tum, n.; pl. Factotums (-t. Etym: [L., do everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See Fact, and Total.]
Defn: A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B.
Jonson.
FACTUAL
Fac"tu*al, a.
Defn: Relating to, or containing, facts. [R.]
FACTUM
Fac"tum, n.; pl. Facta. Etym: [L. See Fact.]
1. (Law)
Defn: A man's own act and deed; particularly: (a) (Civil Law) Anything stated and made certain. (b) (Testamentary Law) The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.