Six-water grog

a sea-term for the weakest grog po ible—six portions of water to one of rum—hardly enough spirit to “swear by.” Size , to order extras over and above the usual commons at the dinner in college halls. Soup, pastry, ., are SIZINGS , and are paid for at a certain specified rate per SIZE , or portion, to the college cook. Peculiar to Cambridge. Minsheu says, “ SIZE , a farthing which schollers in Cambridge have at the buttery, noted with the letter s .”