Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Containing, consisting of, or resembling size; glutinous; thick and viscous; ropy; having the adhesiveness of size.

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

  • adjective Sizelike; viscous; glutinous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Like size (weak glue or paste).
  • adjective Exhibiting size (the thickened crust on coagulated blood).

Etymologies

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size +‎ -y

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Examples

  • This was a very new building and it had a new cold like sizy smell which gave you a bit of the shivers.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • To prevent which, I presently made a large orifice in the vein of the left arm, whence I drew twenty ounces of blood; which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints; but, to my surprize, it appeared rosy and florid, and its consistency differed little from the blood of those in perfect health.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • Do we not mean a certain Contexture of Nerves, fibres, Muscles, or certain Qualities of the Blood and juices, as sizy or watery, flegmatic or fiery, acid or alkaline?

    John Adams diary 12, 30 December 1765 - 20 January 1766 1961

  • Estate or (smiling) sizy blood could effect it, it should be done.

    John Adams diary 35, 26 October - 17 November 1782 1961

  • I remember the old gentleman used to complain that his constitution was an unhappy one from birth, attended with 'flaccid solids, sizy and scarce fluids, and a low tide of spirits.'

    Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

  • To prevent which, I presently made a large orifice in the vein of the left arm, whence I drew twenty ounces of blood; which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous or indeed coagulated as it is in pleuretic complaints; but, to my surprize, it appeared rosy and florid, and its consistency differed little from the blood of those in perfect health.

    XIII. Containing the Great Address of the Landlady. Book VII 1917

  • M.M. Hepatic inflammation is very liable to terminate in suppuration, and the patient is destroyed by the continuance of a fever with sizy blood, but without night-sweats, or diarrhoea, as in other unopened abscesses.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • I knew an unfortunate case, where the placenta was left till the next day; and then an unskilful accoucheur introduced his hand, and forcibly tore it away; the consequence was a most violent inflammatory fever, with hard throbbing pulse, great pain, very sizy blood, and the death of the patient.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • The occasional increase of fever, with hard pulse and sizy blood, in these patients, is probably owing to the inflammation of the walls of the vomica; as it is attended with difficulty of breathing, and requires venesection.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • To relieve the difficult respiration, about six ounces of blood were taken from one of them, which to my surprise was sizy, like inflamed blood: they had both palpitations or unequal pulsations of the heart.

    Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

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