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unˈsizeable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
†1. Unequal in size; not of the proper or exact size. Obs.
1653W. Blithe Eng. Improver Impr. 197 Make your Horses and Oxen as equall as you can possibly; if they be unsizeable, your highest draw up your lowest, and your lowest draw down the highest. 1678Moxon Mech. Exerc. v. 78 [Do not let] the edge of your Hatchet cut too deep into the stuff, lest you..spoil your stuff by making it unsizeable. 1704Lond. Gaz. No. 3888/3 The 35 Tun of unsizeable and crackt Brass Ordance. 1716B. Church Hist. Philip's War (1867) ii. 26 Bullets..so unsizeable that some of them were forc'd to make slugs while they were ingag'd.
2. Of excessive size; too large or bulky. Obs.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 9 An unsizeable Sword to their Backs. Ibid. 162, I was made at by an unsizable Snake. 1710Tatler No. 241 ⁋3, I am not without hopes, that by this method I shall bring some unsizable friends of mine into shape and breadth. 1736T. Prince Chron. Hist. New Eng. I. 250 If I now proceed to the End of this Second Section,..it will make the First Volume too unsizeable.
fig.1755Pitt in Anecd. (1810) I. xii. 202 This unsizable project, impracticable and desperate as it is,..will..bring bankruptcy upon Great Britain. 1759Franklin Ess. Wks. 1840 III. 529 And who or what are these proprietaries? In the province, unsizable subjects and unsufficient lords.
3. Not grown to a proper size; immature.
1746R. Griffiths Ess. Conservacy Thames 52 [They] annually destroy infinite Numbers of unsizeable Smelts. 1759Act 33 Geo. II, c. 27 §13 Any Spawn, Fry, or Brood of Fish, or any unsizeable Fish, or any Fish out of Season. 1833J. Cornish in Rep. Sel. Comm. Brit. Channel Fisheries 148 Millions of young and unsizeable fish. 1887Field 24 Dec. 953/2 The keepers are..instructed to..prosecute the possessors of unsizeable pike.
Hence unˈsizeableness.
1746Lond. Mag. 324 Diversity of Weapons.., Unsizeableness of the Men, and Want of..Discipline in their Officers. |