Word Meaning

Meaning of "size" and the crossword clue

- Bigness
- Clothing-label range
- Cut back workforce
- Dimensions
- Magnitude
- Measurements
- Queue of runners are keen to cross it
- S, M or L
- Shed staff
- Thin paste
- Volume of audible sighs
- Weak glue
- Six.
- A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
- Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
- To cover with size; to prepare with size.
- A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.
- 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.
- Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
- A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
- An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
- To fix the standard of.
- To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.
- To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
- To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
- To swell; to increase the bulk of.
- To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.
- To take greater size; to increase in size.
- To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.