Size, n.
1. A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. [Obs.] “To scant my sizes.”
2. Univ. of Cambridge, Eng. An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.
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. --L'Estrange.
The middling or lower size of people. --Swift.
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.
Size roll, a small piese of parchment added to a roll.
Size stick, a measuring stick used by shoemakers for ascertaining the size of the foot.
Syn: -- Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude.