The Meaning of size

• (n.) Six.
• (v. i.) A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
• (v. i.) Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
• (v. t.) To cover with size; to prepare with size.
• (n.) A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
• (n.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
• (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.
• (n.) Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
• (n.) A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
• (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.
• (v. t.) To fix the standard of.
• (v. t.) To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
• (v. t.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
• (v. t.) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
• (v. t.) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
• (v. t.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
• (v. i.) To take greater size; to increase in size.
• (v. i.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

Synonyms

Greatness , magnitude , largeness , extent , dimension , bulk , extent , bigness.

Antonyms

Smallness , littleness , tenuity , minuteness.

Homophones

seise , sighs

Rhymes

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