Vocabulary : Size to Sizzling
Size : Six. ;; A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc. ;; Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish. ;; To cover with size; to prepare with size. ;; A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. ;; An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford. ;; 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. ;; Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size. ;; A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale. ;; An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls. ;; To fix the standard of. ;; To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. ;; To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks accordingSized : of Size ;; Adjusted according to size. ;; Having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized.
Sizel : Same as Scissel, 2.
Sizer : See Sizar. ;; An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size. ;; An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.
Siziness : The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness.