SIZE (4)

Size, n. [[Abbrev. from assize. See Assize, and cf. Size glue.]] 1. 1. A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. “To scant my sizes.” Shak.
2. 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. 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. 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. 5. A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
6. 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. Knight.
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.