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.

A settled quantity of allowance.

Figurative bulk; condition as to rank and character; as men of less size and quality.

To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.

To settle; to fix the standard of; as, to size weights and measures.

To cover with size; to prepare with size.

To swell; to increase the bulk or.

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