What S M L or XL indicates on a clothing tag

• Six. • A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc. • Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish. • To cover with size; to prepare with size. • A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. • An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford. • Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock. • Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size. • A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale. • An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls. • To fix the standard of. • To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. • To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature. • To sift, as pieces of ore or metal, in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts. • To swell; to increase the bulk of. • To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting. • To take greater size; to increase in size. • To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

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