Definition of Sizings

1. Noun. (plural of sizing) ¹

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Definition of Sizings

1. sizing [n] - See also: sizing

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sizings

sizeist
sizeists
sizel
sizeless
sizels
sizer
sizers
sizes
sizewise
sizey
sizier
siziest
siziness
sizinesses
sizing
sizings (current term)
sizism
sizisms
sizist
sizists
sizofiran
sizy
sizz
sizzle
sizzled
sizzler
sizzlers
sizzles
sizzling
sizzlingly

Literary usage of Sizings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"Payments at Oxford for college expenses (called sizings at Cambridge); from an old word signifying a coin. Batter. To slope inwards. Battlement. ..."

2. Archives of the Public Health Laboratory of the University of Manchester by University of Manchester, A. Sheridan Deléphine (1906)
"What is trimmed off the " ' sizings,' after being in lime and water for many days, are dried first in " skins is classed as ' picked sizings,' ' rough ..."

3. The Slang Dictionary: Or, The Vulgar Words, Street Phrases, and "fast by John Camden Hotten (1865)
"Soup, pastry, &c., are sizings, and are paid for at a certain specified rate per SIZE, or portion, to the college cook.—Peculiar to Cambridge. ..."

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