SIZE

Definitions for the word, size

(n.) A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.

(n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.

(n.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.

(n.) An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.

(n.) 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 rock.

(n.) Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.

(n.) Six.

(v. i.) A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.

(v. i.) Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.

(v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

(v. i.) To take greater size; to increase in size.

(v. t.) To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.

(v. t.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.

(v. t.) To cover with size; to prepare with size.

(v. t.) To fix the standard of.

(v. t.) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.

(v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

(v. t.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.