▪ I. sized, ppl. a.1
(saɪzd)
[f. size n.1 or v.1]
1. Having a specified or indicated magnitude or size: a. In predicative use.
| 1582 Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 82 A strange sow mightelye sized. 1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 180 As my Loue is siz'd, my Feare is so. 1693 Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 17 Certain Particles of Matter so and so sized, so and so figured. 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 121 Differently sized, from the Bigness of a Pheasant. 1766 Canning Anti-Lucretius ii. 89 If in it's motion one should chance to strike Against another, shap'd and siz'd alike. |
b. Attributively, with qualifying words denoting relative size, as fair-sized, full-sized, great-sized, large-sized, middle-sized.
In later use also with advs., as fairly-sized, moderately-sized.
| 1606 Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. x. 26 Thou great siz'd coward. 1611 Cotgr. s.v. Poincte, The middle-sized wax-candle vsed in Churches. a 1678– Large-sized [see large A. 15]. 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Cock, A Dunghil Cock..should be..of a large and well-siz'd Body. 1796 C. Marshall Gardening xiv. (1813) 204 One plant or at most two will be now under one full-sized light. 1801 Med. Jrnl. V. 225 A moderate sized garden pea. 1883 F. Day Indian Fish 46 Large drag-nets,..having fairly-sized meshes. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 528/2 The average-sized bottlenose whale yields 22 cwts. of oil. |
c. With qualifying words of the types same, such, this; different, several, etc.
| 1626 Sir E. Cecil in J. Glanville's Voy. Cadiz (Camden) p. xliii, The Commissioners are much to be commended for such sized shippes as they have made. 1656 Duchess of Newcastle Nature's Picture xi, Like several sized candles, are longer or shorter ere they come to a snuff. 1680 Moxon Mech. Exerc. xiii. 224 They have different sized Grooves in the Slate for that purpose. 1806 A. Hunter Culina 189 This sized pie will require three hours baking. 1857 T. Moore Handbk. Brit. Ferns (ed. 3) 28 Re-pot in the same sized pot. 1879 Noad & Preece Electricity 221 A series of experiments made..with different-sized platinum electrodes. |
d. With the, = the size of.
| 1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. 139 Having..decided upon the sized type most suitable for the principal one. 1875 Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. x. (ed. 2) 362 Table showing the Sized Chain or Wire Rope which is used as a Substitute for Hempen Rope. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Africa 547, I should say this is about the sized one you find..in your chicken-house. |
2. Matched in size. rare—1.
| 1700 Dryden Pal. & Arc. iii. 569 Such Bodies built for Strength, of equal Age, In Stature siz'd;..The nicest Eye cou'd no Distinction make. |
3. Of a fair, proper, or standard size. sized fish, a size-fish (see size n.1 13).
| 1737 Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 33 [He] writ to me to buy him a sized Gelding for Hunting. 1771 R. Berenger Horsem. I. 170 As the riders were cloathed in..armour..Great and sized horses were..required. 1778 Pryce Min. Cornub. 217 Taking off the sized Tin from time to time on another shovel. 1845 J. Coulter Adv. Pacific ii. 12 A sized fish that any Waltonian might well stare at! 1865 Bower Slate Quarries 30 Sized tons, various breadths, and irregular lengths. |
▪ II. sized, ppl. a.2
(saɪzd)
[f. size v.2]
Treated or prepared in some way with size.
| 1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 713/1 This sized paint must be laid on with a stiff brush. 1815 Hist. John Decastro II. 199 As worthy a gentleman as ever walked between sized felt and neats leather. 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 747 If the varnish be applied to a sized colour. 1878 Abney Photogr. xxv. (1881) 172 Sized paper is floated in potassium dichromate. |
b. With qualifying term.
| 1864 R. A. Arnold Hist. Cotton Famine 513 The wearers of this heavily sized cloth. 1888 Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 126 A certain proportion of size.., according to instructions for a ‘hard’ or ‘soft’ sized article. |