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[Verbal n. of size2, v.] 1. The act or proce of applying size or preparing with size. 2. Size prepared for use in any mechanical trade. - Animal sizing, a di olved animal glue used for the best writing-papers. - Rosin sizing, a sizing composed of a mixture of rosin and soda. sizy (sī'zi), a. [ and viscous; ropy; having the adhesivene of size. The blood let the first time florid; after a second time sizy . Arbuthnot, Diet, iv. sizygium, n. See syzygium . sizz (siz), v . i. [An imitative var. of si 1 . Cf. hizz, hi .] To hi ; sizzle: noting a hi some- what resembling a buzz. Mention has been made... of a peculiar "singing" or rather " sizzing " noise on the wire. Nature, XLII. 595. sizzen (siz'n), v . i. [Cf. sizz.] To hi . Halli- well. [Prov. Eng.] sizzerst, n . An old spelling of sci ors . cue2, 2. sized1 (sīzd), a. [ As my love is sized , my fear is so; Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear. IMG:content-1175.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1176.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1177.jpg:[merged small][graphic][merged small] skate On the Atlantic coast of North America the common little skate, a foot two long, is R. sometimes called tobacco - box. The big skate or ocellated ray is R. ocellata, nearly 3 feet; the starry skate, R. radiata, of medium size, is found on both coasts; R. eglanteria is the briers kate, medium-sized, and not common. The largest is the barn-door skate, R. lævis, about 4 feet long. The common skate of the Pacific side is R. binoculata, and several others occur on the same coast. Some of these fishes are edible, and, on the continent of Europe, even esteemed. Their egg-cases (skate-barrows) are curious objects. See also cuts under Elasmobranch i i, mermaid's - purse, and ray. -Burton skate, Raia alba or margin at a. [Prov. Eng.] Shagreen skate. See shagreen.