American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2

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Author: Noah Webster

Size

SIZE, n. [either contracted from assize, or from the L. scissus. I take it to be from the former, and from the sense of setting, as we apply the word to the assize of bread.]

1. Bulk; bigness; magnitude; extent of superficies. Size particularly expresses thickness; as the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock. A man may be tall, with little size of body.

2. A settled quantity of allowance. [contracted from assize.]

3. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank and character; as men of less size and quality. [Not much used.]

SIZE, v.t.

1. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.

2. To settle; to fix the standard of; as, to size weights and measures. [Now little used.]

3. To cover with size; to prepare with size.

4. To swell; to increase the bulk or.

5. Among Cornish miners, to separate the finer firm the coarser parts of a metal by sifting them through a wire sieve.

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Chicago: Noah Webster Jr., "Size," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed April 18, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3W6RIRWXWQD1MKA.

MLA: Webster, Noah, Jr. "Size." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 18 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3W6RIRWXWQD1MKA.

Harvard: Webster, N, 'Size' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 18 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3W6RIRWXWQD1MKA.