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Webster 1913 Edition
Size
Size
,Noun.
1.
A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
2.
Any viscous substance, as gilder’s varnish.
Size
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sized
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sizing
.] To cover with size; to prepare with size.
2.
(Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.)
An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; – corresponding to battel at Oxford.
3.
Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude;
as, the
. size
of a tree or of a mast; the size
of a ship or of a rock4.
Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.;
as, the office demands a man of larger
. size
Men of a less
size
and quality. L'Estrange.
The middling or lower
size
of people. Swift.
5.
A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
6.
An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, – used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
Knight.
Size roll
, a small piese of parchment added to a roll.
– Size stick
, a measuring stick used by shoemakers for ascertaining the size of the foot.
Syn. – Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude.
Size
,Verb.
T.
1.
To fix the standard of.
“To size weights and measures.” [R.]
Bacon.
2.
To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
Specifically: (a)
(Mil.)
To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
(b)
(Mining)
To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
3.
To swell; to increase the bulk of.
Beau. & Fl.
4.
(Mech.)
To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
We had
to size up
our fellow legislators. The Century.
Size
,Verb.
I.
1.
To take greater size; to increase in size.
Our desires give them fashion, and so,
As they wax lesser, fall, as they
As they wax lesser, fall, as they
size
, grow. Donne.
2.
(Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.)
To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
Webster 1828 Edition
Size
SIZE
,Noun.
1.
Bulk; bigness; magnitude; extent of superficies. Size particularly expresses thickness; as the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock. A man may be tall, with little size of body.2.
A settled quantity of allowance. [contracted from assize.]3.
Figurative bulk; condition as to rank and character; as men of less size and quality. [Not much used.]