Sī'zar, n.

n. (University of Cambridge, Eng.) One of a body of students next below the pensioners, who eat at the public table, after the fellows, free of expense.

The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. Macaulay.

☞ They formerly waited on the table at meals; but this is done away with. They were probably so called from being thus employed in distributing the size, or provisions. See SIZE, 3.