sizy, a.
(ˈsaɪzɪ)
Also 8 sizie, sizey.
[f. size n.2]
Resembling size; having the consistency of size; thick and viscous; glutinous.
Very common in the 18th cent., esp. of blood.
| 1687 Phil. Trans. XVI. 552 The Interstices of the Muscles..where the Blood is very sizy. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 321 The most flowery parts of it [boiling malt] run whitish, glewy and sizie, like Sadler's Paste. 1763 Goldsm. Misc. Wks. (1837) II. 539 Those which lay them in the waters, place them..generally in a sizy substance. 1797 J. Downing Disord. Horned Cattle 17 This medicine..disperses pituitous skins, and the sizy blood. 1827 Lancet 8 Dec. 390/2 The blood drawn yesterday is slightly buffed and sizy. |