| Size (size) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Size |
| [See Sice, and
Sise.] |
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| Size (size) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Size |
| [OIt. sisa glue used
by painters, shortened fr. assisa, fr. assidere, p. p.
assiso, to make to sit, to seat, to place, L. assidere
to sit down; ad + sidere to sit down, akin to
sedere to sit. See |
A thin, weak
glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper
making, etc.
Any viscous substance, as gilder's
varnish.
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To cover with size] to prepare with
size.
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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.
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To
fix the standard of.
To adjust or arrange according to size or
bulk.
To swell; to increase the bulk of.
To bring or adjust anything
exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
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To
take greater size] to increase in size.
To order
food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the
buttery book.
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