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sizy

American  
[sahy-zee] / ˈsaɪ zi /

adjective

Archaic.
sizier, siziest
  1. thick; viscous.


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Etymology

Origin of sizy

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


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In this situation, if he saw the patient within 12 or 24 hours of her seizure, he took away from 16 to 24 ounces of blood, which was always sizy.

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

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

M. M. Hepatic inflammation is very liable to terminate in suppuration, and the patient is destroyed by the continuance of a fever with sizy blood, but without night-sweats, or diarrhœa, as in other unopened abscesses.

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

Very soon after impregnation, if blood be drawn and suffered to stand a short time undisturbed, it will become sizy, of a yellowish or bluish color, and somewhat of an oily appearance.

From Fruits of Philosophy A Treatise on the Population Question by Charles Knowlton

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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