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sizy

American  
[sahy-zee] / ˈsaɪ zi /

adjective

Archaic.
sizier, siziest
  1. thick; viscous.


Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of sizy

First recorded in 1680–90; size 2 + -y 1

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Next Day, the 21st, her Blood appeared very sizy, and she complained of having been costive for some Days.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro

In more than two hundred patients, male and female, who were let blood by venesection, there were only six, whose blood could be termed sizy.

From Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam

The Pulse was strong and quick, and the Blood sizy; attended with other Appearances commonly observed in such Fevers.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro

When their errand was announced, he burst into tears, overcome by a sense of unworthiness, and in a subsequent letter he confirms his unfitness by reference to his 'flaccid solids and weak and sizy fluids.'

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 by Various

To relieve the difficult respiration, about six ounces of blood were taken from one of them, which to my surprise was sizy, like inflamed blood: they had both palpitations or unequal pulsations of the heart.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

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