Size(v. i.)
- A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
Size(v. i.)
- Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
Size(v. t.)
- To cover with size; to prepare with size.
Size(n.)
- A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
Size(n.)
- An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
Size(n.)
- 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.
Size(n.)
- Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
Size(n.)
- A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
Size(n.)
- An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.