SPage 290
- English Word Size Definition An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
- English Word Size Definition 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.
- English Word Size Definition Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
- English Word Size Definition A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
- English Word Size Definition An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
- English Word Size Definition To fix the standard of.
- English Word Size Definition To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
- English Word Size Definition To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
- English Word Size Definition To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
- English Word Size Definition To swell; to increase the bulk of.
- English Word Size Definition To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
- English Word Size Definition To take greater size; to increase in size.
- English Word Size Definition To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
- English Word Sized Definition of Size
- English Word Sized Definition Adjusted according to size.
- English Word Sized Definition Having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized.
- English Word Sizel Definition Same as Scissel, 2.
- English Word Sizer Definition See Sizar.
- English Word Sizer Definition An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.
- English Word Sizer Definition An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size.
- English Word Siziness Definition The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness.
- English Word Sizing Definition of Size
- English Word Sizing Definition Act of covering or treating with size.
- English Word Sizing Definition A weak glue used in various trades; size.
- English Word Sizing Definition The act of sorting with respect to size.
- English Word Sizing Definition The act of bringing anything to a certain size.
- English Word Sizing Definition Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student.
- English Word Sizy Definition Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood.
- English Word Sizzle Definition To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.
- English Word Sizzle Definition A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire.