Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SIZE, v.t.

1. To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. – Hudibras.
2. To settle; to fix the standard of; as, to size weights and measures. [Now little used.]
3. To cover with size; to prepare with size.
4. To swell; to increase the bulk of. – Beaum. Fletcher.
5. Among Cornish miners, to separate the finer from the coarser parts of a metal by sifting them through a wire sieve. – Encyc.