Size

1. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
2. A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
3. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
4. An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
5. To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
6. Six.
7. A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
8. To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
9. A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
10. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
11. To take greater size; to increase in size.
12. To swell; to increase the bulk of.
13. To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
14. To fix the standard of.
15. 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.
16. To cover with size; to prepare with size.
17. To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
18. Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.