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Entry 16 senses · 6 variants Webster, 1913

Size

/sīz/ · IPA /saɪz/
01 n. Six.
  1. 1.
    Six.
02 n. A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
  1. 1.
    A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
  2. 2.
    Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
03 v. t. To cover with size; to prepare with size.
imp. & p. p. Sized; p. pr. & vb. n. Sizing
  1. 1.
    To cover with size; to prepare with size.
04 n. A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
  1. 1.
    A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.[Obs.] See: Assize
  2. 2.
    An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.(Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.)
  3. 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 rock.
  4. 4.
    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. 5.
    A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
  6. 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.
Phrases & compounds
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.
05 v. t. To fix the standard of.
  1. 1.
    To fix the standard of.[R.]
  2. 2.
    To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.(Mil.)
  3. 3.
    To swell; to increase the bulk of.
  4. 4.
    To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.(Mech.)
    “We had to size up our fellow legislators.” — The Century.
06 v. i. To take greater size; to increase in size.
  1. 1.
    To take greater size; to increase in size.
    “Our desires give them fashion, and so, As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.” — Donne.
  2. 2.
    To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.(Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.)