make to a size; bring to a suitable size sort according to size cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance) (used in combination) sized the economy-size package average-size house the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing) he wears a size 13 shoe the physical magnitude of something (how big it is) a wolf is about the size of a large dog a large magnitude he blanched when he saw the size of the bill the only city of any size in that area the actual state of affairs that's the size of the situation she hates me, that's about the size of it any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics size gives body to a fabric