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n. [ OE. assise, asise, OF. assise, F. assises, assembly of judges, the decree pronounced by them, tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L. assid&unr_;re to sit by; ad + sedēre to sit. See Sit, Size, and cf. Excise, Assess. ] 1. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) A special kind of jury or inquest. (b) A kind of writ or real action. (c) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ. (d) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures. (e) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. Glanvill. Spelman. Cowell. Blackstone. Tomlins. Burrill. [ This term is not now used in England in the sense of a writ or real action, and seldom of a jury of any kind, but in Scotch practice it is still technically applied to the jury in criminal cases. Stephen. Burrill. Erskine. ] (f) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury. Blackstone. Wharton. Encyc. Brit. (g) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural. Brande. Wharton. Craig. Burrill. (h) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Measure; dimension; size. [ In this sense now corrupted into size. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An hundred cubits high by just assize. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Formerly written, as in French, assise. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Assized p. pr. & vb. n. Assizing. ] [ From Assize, n.: cf. LL. assisare to decree in assize. Cf. Asses, v. ] 1. To assess; to value; to rate. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Scots Law) A juror. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Capsized p. pr. & vb. n. Capsizing. ] [ Cf. Sp. cabecear to nod, pitch, capuzar, chapuzar, to sink (a vessel) by the head; both fr. L. caput head. ] To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. [ 1913 Webster ]

But what if carrying sail capsize the boat? Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An upset or overturn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Economics) the reduction of expeditures and personnel in order to become financial stable; -- of businesses.
Syn. -- retrenchment, curtailment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Emphasized p. pr. & vb. n. Emphasizing ] To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.

adj. Having stress or emphasis.
Syn. -- emphatic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of giving special importance or significance to something.
Syn. -- accenting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Sized by a machine, and not while in the pulp; -- said of paper. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Being of the same size as an original.
Syn. -- life-size, life-sized. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. Coleridge.

adj. 1. extra large; as, a king-size bed. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

☞ A king-size bed is the largest size generally sold commercially; it is larger than a queen-size, which in turn is larger than a full-size (or double) bed, and that in turn is larger than a twin-size (or single) bed. The mattress for a king-size bed is typically about 76 inches wide and 80 inches long. [ PJC ]

2. Of or pertaining to a king-size bed; suitable for a king-size bed; as, a king-size bedcover. [ PJC ]

a. Of full size; of the natural size; of the same size as an original; as, a life-size sculpture; a life-size portrait of the general. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Calling for manly attributes; as, a man-sized job. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Large enough to satisfy a man; as, a man-sized piece of cake. [ informal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to spread from one part of the body to other parts, and grow there; to spread by metastasis{ 3 }; -- said of cancer cells. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to emphasize excessively; to place excessive emphasis on.
Syn. -- overemphasize, emphasise, overstress. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To cover with viscid matter. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O'ersized with coagulate gore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surpass in size. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To emphasize again.
Syn. -- re-emphasise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Of considerable size or bulk. “A sizable volume.” Bp. Hurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ They formerly waited on the table at meals; but this is done away with. They were probably so called from being thus employed in distributing the size, or provisions. See 4th Size, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The position or standing of a sizar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sice, and Sise. ] Six. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OIt. sisa glue used by painters, shortened fr. assisa, fr. assidere, p. p. assiso, to make to sit, to seat, to place, L. assidere to sit down; ad + sidere to sit down, akin to sedere to sit. See Sit, v. i., and cf. Assize, Size bulk. ] 1. A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sized p. pr. & vb. n. Sizing. ] To cover with size; to prepare with size. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbrev. from assize. See Assize, and cf. Size glue. ] 1. A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. [ Obs. ] “To scant my sizes.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men of a less size and quality. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

The middling or lower size of people. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

Size roll, a small piese of parchment added to a roll. --
Size stick, a measuring stick used by shoemakers for ascertaining the size of the foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To fix the standard of. “To size weights and measures.” [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. Specifically: (a) (Mil.) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature. (b) (Mining) To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To swell; to increase the bulk of. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mech.) To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting. [ 1913 Webster ]

To size up, to estimate or ascertain the character and ability of. See 4th Size, 4. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ] We had to size up our fellow legislators. The Century. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To take greater size; to increase in size. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our desires give them fashion, and so,
As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Adjusted according to size. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Scissel, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. See Sizar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) (a) An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size. (b) An instrument or tool for bringing anything to an exact size. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of covering or treating with size. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A weak glue used in various trades; size. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of sorting with respect to size. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of bringing anything to a certain size. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From 2d Size. ] Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sizzled p. pr. & vb. n. Sizzling ] [ See Siss. ] To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound. [ Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. ] Forby. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire. [ Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Sizzle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar. [ Cambridge Univ. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his bever. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To combine by synthesis; to unite. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To produce by synthesis; as, to synthesize albumin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of a size less than is common. [ 1913 Webster ]