cize

Noun

size (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)

1. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
   • The size of the building seemed to have increased since I was last there.
2. A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
   • I don't think we have the red one in your size.
3. The number of edges in a graph.
4. (dated, figuratively) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
   • men of a less size and quality**1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
5. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
   • Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Size”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..
6. (dialectal, obsolete) An assize.
   • I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size, that no one is above the law.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 560

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