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