Size
Definition of Size
| n. | 1. | Six. | | 1. | A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc. | | 2. | Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish. | | v. t. | 1. | To cover with size; to prepare with size. | | n. | 1. | A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. | | 2. | (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; - corresponding to battel at Oxford. | | 3. | 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. | | 4. | Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size. | | 5. | A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale. | | 6. | An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, - used for ascertaining the size of pearls. | | v. t. | 1. | To fix the standard of. | | 2. | (Mil.) To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. | | 3. | To swell; to increase the bulk of. | | 4. | (Mech.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting. | | v. i. | 1. | To take greater size; to increase in size. | | 2. | (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book. |
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