sizy

[ sahy-zee ]

adjective

, Archaic.

, siz·i·er, siz·i·est.

1. thick; viscous.

Other Words From

• sizi·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sizy¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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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.

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Like noisome soup appeared to gush The sizy torrent, now set free; And in the mess lurched figures bloated, With fat heads, whose dull eyes still gloated On morsels that around them floated Of callipash and callipee.

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

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