SIZE

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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. [Obs.] "To scant my sizes." Shak.

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. Men of a less size and quality. L'Estrange. The middling or lower size of people. Swift.

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. 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.

To fix the standard of. "To size weights and measures." [R.] Bacon.

To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. Specifically:

To swell; to increase the bulk of. Beau. & Fl.

To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting. To size up, to estimate or ascertain the character and ability of. See 4th Size, 4. [Slang, U.S.] We had to size up our fellow legislators. The Century.

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.

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