The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Manufacture \Man`u*fac"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.
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   2. To work, as raw or partly wrought materials, into suitable
      forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk, or
      iron.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Manufacture \Man`u*fac"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.
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   2. Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by
      machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes,
      machinery, saddlery, etc.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Manufacture \Man`u*fac"ture\, v. i.
   To be employed in manufacturing something.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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,
         manufacture]
    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,
       manufacture, manufacturing]
    v 1: put together out of artificial or natural components or
         parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They
         manufacture small toys"; He manufactured a popular cereal"
         [syn: manufacture, fabricate, construct]
    2: make up something artificial or untrue [syn: fabricate,
       manufacture, cook up, make up, invent]
    3: produce naturally; "this gland manufactures a specific
       substance only"
    4: create or produce in a mechanical way; "This novelist has
       been manufacturing his books following his initial success"

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



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.