Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FAC'TO-RY, n.

1. A house or place where factors reside, to transact business for their employers. The English merchants have factories in the East Indies, Turkey, Portugal, Hamburg, &c.
2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. Guthrie.
3. Contracted from manufactory, a building or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares or utensils.