Size

n. [Abbreviated from assize, q. v.]

1. 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.
2. A settled quantity or allowance. [Obs.] See ASSIZE.
3. (University of Cambridge, Eng.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons;—corresponding to battel at Oxford.
4. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank and character. [Obs.] “Men of a less size and quality.” L’Estrange.
5. A conventional relative measure of dimension, applied to a great variety of articles made up for sale, as shoes, gloves, and the like.
6. An instrument consisting of thin leaves fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for ascertaining the size of pearls.

Syn.—Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SIZED; p. pr. & vb. n. SIZING.]

1. To adjust, or arrange, according to size or bulk. Hudibras.
2. To settle; to fix the standard of; as, to size weights and measures. [Rare.]
3. To swell; to increase the bulk of. Beaum. & Fl.
4. To cover with size; to prepare with size.
5. (Mining.) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, through a wire sieve, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.