Size, n.
 1. A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. [Obs.] “To scant my sizes.”
 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.
 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.
 4. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.
    Men of a less size and quality.   --L'Estrange.
    The middling or lower size of people.   --Swift.
 5. A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.
 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.
 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.
 Syn: -- Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude.