'Size roll' definitions:

Definition of 'Size roll'

From: GCIDE
  • Size \Size\, 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]