Size /(?)/

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.

imp. & p. p. Sized; p. pr. & vb. n. Sizing

1. To cover with size; to prepare with size.

1. A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. [Obs.]
2. An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.)
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.

   Men of a less size and quality.

   The middling or lower size of people.

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.

1. To fix the standard of. [R.]
2. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. (Mil.)
3. To swell; to increase the bulk of.
4. To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting. (Mech.)

   We had to size up our fellow legislators.

1. To take greater size; to increase in size.

   Our desires give them fashion, and so, As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.

2. To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.)