size

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of several gelatinous or glutinous substances usually made from glue, wax, or clay and used as a glaze or filler for porous materials such as paper, cloth, or wall surfaces.
• transitive verb To treat or coat with size or a similar substance.
• noun The physical dimensions, proportions, magnitude, or extent of an object.
• noun Any of a series of graduated categories of dimension whereby manufactured articles, such as shoes and clothing, are classified.
• noun Considerable extent, amount, or dimensions.
• noun Relative amount or number, as of population or contents.
• noun Character, value, or status with reference to relative importance or the capacity to meet given requirements.
• noun The actual state of affairs.
• transitive verb To arrange, classify, or distribute according to size.
• transitive verb To make, cut, or shape to a required size.
• adjective Sized. Often used in combination.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To regulate the weight, measure, extent, value, etc., of; fix the rate or standard of; assize.
• At Cambridge and other universities, to obtain (food or drink) in extra portions at a fixed rate of charge; hence, in general, to buy at a fixed rate; purchase.
• To supply with sizes; hence, to fill or otherwise affect by sizes or portions.
• To rate; rank.
• To estimate or ascertain the size of; measure; hence, by extension, to arrange in groups or ranks according to dimensions.
• To separate or sort according to size.
• At Cambridge and other universities, to give an order (for food or drink) over and above the usual commons: generally with for. Compare battel.
• To cover with size; prepare with size; stiffen by means of size.
• To smear over with any substance acting like size: occurring chiefly in compounds.
• To render plastic: said of clay.
• noun Same as sice.
• noun A gelatinous wash used by painters, by paper-manufacturers, and in many industrial arts
• noun A material resembling size, but of different origin, and used for its tenacity as a preparation for gilding and the like.
• noun A glutinous printing-ink made to receive and retain the bronze-powder of gold or silver which is dusted on it.
• noun In physiology, the buffy coat observed on the surface of coagulated blood in certain conditions.
• noun In brickmaking, plasticity, as of the clay before burning.
• To cut or trim to the size required.
• noun A fixed rate regulating the weight, measure, price, or proportion of any article, especially food or drink; a standard. See assize, n., 2.
• noun A specified or fixed amount of food and drink; a ration.
• noun Hence, in university use, a charge made for an extra portion of food or drink; a farthing, as the former price of each portion. The word was also used more generally, to note any additional expense incurred.
• noun A portion allotted by chance or fate; a share; a peculiar or individual allotment.
• noun Grade of quality or importance; rank; class; degree; order.
• noun Rate of dimension, whether linear, square, or solid; material proportions; relative magnitude; now the usual sense.
• noun One of a regularly increasing series of dimensions used for manufactured articles which are bought ready-made; specifically, as used by shoemakers, one third of an inch in length.
• noun Extent, or volume, or magnitude in other respects, as of time, sound, or effort.
• noun plural A session of a court of justice; assizes. See assize, 6.
• noun An implement for measuring pearls, consisting of a number of thin leaves pierced with holes of different diameters, and fastened together. The test is made by observing how many of the holes the pearl will pass through.
• noun Synonyms Size, Magnitude, Bulk, Volume. Size is the general word for things large or small. In ordinary discourse magnitude applies to large things; but it is also an exact word, and is much used in science: as, a star of the fourth magnitude. Bulk suggests noticeable size, especially size rounding out into unwieldiness. Volume is a rather indefinite word, arising from the idea of rolling a thing up till it attains size, though with no especial suggestion of shape. We speak of the magnitude of a calamity or of a fortune, the bulk of a bale of cotton or of an elephant, the volume of smoke or of an avalanche.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Six.
• noun A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.
• noun Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.
• transitive verb To cover with size; to prepare with size.
• intransitive verb To take greater size; to increase in size.
• intransitive verb (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
• noun obsolete A settled quantity or allowance. See assize.
• noun (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.
• noun Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude.