sizy

American  

[sahy-zee] / ˈsaɪ zi /

adjective

Archaic.

sizier, siziest

1. thick; viscous.

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Other Word Forms

• siziness noun

Etymology

Origin of sizy

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

Example Sentences

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 Monro, Donald

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

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 Darwin, Erasmus

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 Monro, Donald

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 Haslam, John