Manufacture

0 The primary meaning of this word is “making with the hand,” but this definition is too narrow for its present use. Its meaning has expanded ag workmanship and art have advanced, so that now nearly all artificial products of human industry, nearly all such materials as have acquired changed conditions or new and specific combinations, whether from the direct action of the human hand, from chemical processes deyised and directed by human skill, or by the employment of machinery, are now commonly designated as “manufactured.”

57 Md. 526. See, also, 5 Blatchf. 215; 59 Mich. 163, 26 N. W. Rep. 311.