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To cover with size; to prepare with size.

Adjusted according to size.

Same as Scissel, 2.

An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.

To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

e, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.

An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.

To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.

To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.

Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight.

as an existing being; to hypostatize. [R.] The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. Coleridge.

Of full size; of the natural size.

Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man.

To surpass in size.

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks. Lowell.

To produce by synthesis; as, to synthesize albumin.

Of a size less than is common.

Near; not far from; -- determining approximately time, size, quantity. "To-morrow, about this time." Exod. ix. 18. "About my stature." Shak. He went out about the third hour. Matt. xx. 3.

considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.

iding academy; the Academy of Music. Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.