six.-a thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.-any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.-to cover with size; to prepare with size.-a settled quantity or allowance. see assize.-an allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at oxford.-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.-figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.-a conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.-an instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.-to fix the standard of.-to adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.-to take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.-to sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.-to swell; to increase the bulk of.-to bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.-to take greater size; to increase in size.-to order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.