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Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided. Sixty-fourth note (Mus.), the sixty-fourth part of a whole note; a hemi-demi-semiquaver.

Of considerable size or bulk. "A sizable volume." Bp. Hurd.

One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. Macaulay.…

The position or standing of a sizar.

Six.

Adjusted according to size.

Same as Scissel, 2.

See Sizar.

The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness.

Act of covering or treating with size.

Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood. Arbuthnot.

To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] Forby.

from Sizzle.

Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking. - - A*ba"sic (#), a.

A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents.

The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogen…

Abortive. [Obs.] Fuller.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

Producing abrasion. Ure.

A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [Obs.] Gauden. Barrough.