SIZE

I. noun see: as~ Date: 13th century as~ 2a, a fixed portion of food or drink, 3. physical magnitude, extent, or bulk ; relative or proportionate dimensions, relative aggregate amount or number, considerable proportions ; bigness, one of a series of graduated measures especially of manufactured articles (as of clothing) conventionally identified by numbers or letters , character, quality, or status of a person or thing especially with reference to importance, relative merit, or correspondence to needs , actual state of affairs , II. verb (~d; sizing) Date: 1609 transitive verb to make a particular ~ ; bring to proper or suitable ~, to arrange, grade, or classify according to ~ or bulk, intransitive verb to equal in ~ or other particular characteristic ; compare , III. adjective Date: 1848 ~d , IV. noun Etymology: Middle English sise Date: 15th century any of various glutinous materials (as preparations of glue, flour, varnish, or resins) used for filling the pores in surfaces (as of paper, textiles, leather, or plaster) or for applying color or metal leaf (as to book edges or covers), V. transitive verb (~d; sizing) Date: 1667 to cover, stiffen, or glaze with or as if with ~