(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.
