The Collaborative International Dictionary
Size \Size\, n. [Abbrev. from assize. See Assize, and cf. Size glue.]
A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. [Obs.] ``To scant my sizes.''
--Shak.(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.
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.
Men of a less size and quality.
--L'Estrange.The middling or lower size of people.
--Swift. 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.
--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.
Wiktionary
n. A small piece of parchment added to a roll.
Usage examples of "size roll".
He nervously twisted the two bills into a cigarette-size roll and slipped them into his pocket.