and 16th a feftival for a victory of the Maccabees. SIUM, WATER PARSNEP, in botany, a genus of plants belonging to the clafs of pentandria, and order of digynia, and in the natural fyftem ranging ander the 45th order, Umbellata. The fruit is a little ovated, and ftreaked. The involucrum is polyphyllous, and the petals are heart-shaped. There are 12 fpecies; viz. 1.6IUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM; 2. DECUMBENS; 3. FALEARICA;4. GRÆCUM; 5. JAPONICUM; 6. LATIFOLIUM; 7. NINSI; 8. NODIFLORUM; 9. REPENS; TO RIGIDUS; II. SICULUS; 12. BISARUM. Of these the first 3 following are naLives of Britain: 1. SIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM, the narrow-leaved water parfnep, has pinnated leaves; the axillary umbels are pedunculated, and the general involucrum is pinnatifid. It grows in ditches and rivulets, but is not common. 2. SIUM LATIFOLIUM, the great water parfnep, grows fpontaneously in many places both of Eng. land and Scotland on the fides of lakes, ponds, And rivulets. The ftalk is ered and furrowed, three feet high or more. The leaves are pinna ted, with three or four pair of large elliptic pinna, with an odd one at the end, all ferrated on the edges. The Balk and branches are terminated with erect umbels, which is the chief characterif tic of the species. Cattle are faid to have run mad by feeding upon this plant. 3. SIUM NODIFLORUM, reclining water parfnep, has pinnated leaves, but the axillary umbels are feffile. It grows on the fides of rivulets. 4. SIUM SISARUM, the SKIRRET, is a native of China, but has been long cultivated in Europe, particularly in Germany. The root is a bunch of Behy fibres, each of which is about as thick as a finger, but very uneven, covered with a whitifh rough bark, and has a hard core or pith running through the centre. From the crown of this bunch come feveral winged leaves, confifting of two or three pair of oblong dentated lobes each, and terminated by an odd one. The ftalk rifes to about two feet, is fet with leaves at the joints, and breaks into branches towards the top, each terminating with an unbel of small white flowers, which are fucceeded by ftriated feeds like thofe of parsley. Skirrets come nearest to parfneps of any of the efculent roots, both for flavour and nutritive qualities. They are rather fweeter than the parfnep, and therefore to fome palates are not altogether fo agreeable. Mr Margraaf extracted from 4lb. of fkirret root 1 ounces of pure fugar. SIUT, Sciot, or fat, a town of Egypt, on an artificial mount, fuppofed to be the ancient Nicopolis, where the wolf was worshipped. See SIDUT. SIUTCHEN, one of the KURULE ISLANDS, in the N. Pacific Ocean. Lon. 169. 40. E. Ferro. Lat. 47. 30. N. SIWA, or SIOUAH, a town in Egypt, W. SIWAH.S of Alexandria, built on a fmall fer. tile spot, furrounded on all fides by defert land. A large proportion of this space is filled with date trees; but there are also pumegranates, figs, and olives, apricots, and plantains; and the gardens are remarkably flourishing. They cultivate, rice of a reddifh hue, different from that of the Delta The remainder of the cultivable land furnishes wheat enough for the inhabitants, Water, both falt and fresh, abounds; but the fprings which furnish the latter are most of them tepid. The greatest curiosity about Siwa is a ruin of undoubt ed antiquity, which, according to Mr Browne, resembles exactly thofe of Upper Egypt, and was erected and adorned by the fame intelligent race of men. The figures of 1fis and Anubis are confpicuous among the fculptures; and the propor tions are thole of the Egyptian temples, though in miniature. What of it remains is a fingle apartment, built of maffy ftones, of the fame kind as thofe of which the pyramids confift. The length is 32 feet, the height 18, the width 15. A gate, at one end forms the principal entrance; and two doors open oppofite to each other. The other end is quite ruinous. In the interior are 3 rows of emblematical figures, reprefenting a proceffion; and the space between them is filed with hieroglyphic characters. It has been fuppofed, with fome degree of probability, that Siwa is the SIROPUM of Pliny, and that this building was coeval with the famous temple of Jupiter Ammon, and a dependency on it. The complexion of the people is darker than that of the other Egyptians. Their dialect is alfo different. Their fect is that of Malik. The lower claffes are almoft naked; the drefs of the fuperior ranks approaches nearer to that of the Arabs of the defert than of the Egyptians or Moors. Their clothing confifts of a thirt of white cotton, with large fleeves, and reaching to the feet; a red Tunifice cap, without a turban; and fhoes of the fame colour. Their household furniture confifts of fome earthen ware made by themselves, and a few mats; none but the richer order being poffeffed of cop per utenfils. They trade with Cairo and Alexan dria. They eat little animal food: cakes, without leaven, kneaded, and then half baked, form their bread; with thin sheets of pafte, fried in the oil of the palm tree, rice, milk, dates, &c. They drink the liquor extracted from the date tree, which has often the power of inebriating. Their domeftic animals are, the hairy theep and goat of Egypt, the afs, and a very small nuinber of oxen and camels. The women are veiled. After the rains, the ground near Siwa is covered with falt for many weeks. Lon. 44.54. E. Lat. 29. 12. N. SIWAS, a city of Afiatic Turkey, capital of a pachalic fo named, in Caramania, In 1394, it was taken by Bajazet I. and foon after by Tamer lane, who deftroyed it, and flaughtered the inhabitants. It is now walled, and defended by a caf tile; and is 375 miles E. of Conftantinople. Lon. 55. 0. E. Ferro. Lat. 39. 50. N. (1.)* SIX. a. f. [fix, Fr.] Twice three; one more than five. All things elfe are like fix fingers to the hand. Dryden.-Six hath many respects in it, not only for the days of the creation, but as being a perfect number. Brown. (2.) SIX AND SEVEN. #. f. To be at fix and feven, is to be in a state of disorder and confufion. A ludicrous expreflion that has been long in ufe. Shak. Every thing is left at fix and feven. In 1588, there fat in the fee of Rome a fierce thundering friar, that would fet all at fix and fe sevelt, or at fx and five, if you allude to his name. Hudibras. -John once turned his mother out of doors, to his great forrow; for his affairs went on at sixes and sevens, Arbuthnot. Swift. The goddess would no longer wait; But riling from her chair of state, Left all below at six und seven. (3.) SIX CLERKS, officers in chancery of great account, next in degree below the 12 mafters, whole buûness is to inrol commissions, pardons, patents, warrants, &c. which pafs the great feal, and to tranfact and file all proceedings by bill, anfwer, &c. They were anciently clerici, and forfeited their places if they married; but when the conflitution of the court began to alter, a law was made to permit them to marry. Stat. 14. and 15. Hen. VIII. cap. 8. They are alfo folicitors for parties in fuite depending in the court of chancery. Under them are 6 deputies and 60 clerks, who, with the under clerks, do the business of the office. (4.) SIX NATIONS, Indians who live on the banks of the Niagara. See ONEIDAS, and SENECA, N° 9. The following information was communicated to the Royal Society of London by Mr Richard M'Caufland, furgeon to the 8th regiment of foot, who, writing from the best authority, informs us, that each nation is divided into three tribes, of which the principal are called the turtle tribe, the wolf tribe, and the bear tribe. Each tribe has two or more chiefs, called sachɩms ; and this diftine. tion is always hereditary in the family, but defcends along the female line: for instance, if a chief dies, one of his fifter's fons, or one of his own brothers, will be appointed to fucered him. Among these no preference is given to proximity or primogeniture; but the fachem, during his lifetime, pitches upon one whom he fuppofes to have more abilities than the reft; and in this choice be frequently confults the principal men of the tribe. If the fucceffor happens to be a child, the offices of the poft are performed by fome of his friends until he is of fufficient age to act himself. Each of these pofts of fachem has a name peculiar to it, and which never changes, as it is always adopted by the fucceffor; nor does the order of precedency of each of thefe names or titles ever vary. Nevertheless, any fachem, by abilities and activity, may acquire greater power and influence in the nation than those who rank before him in point of precedency; but this is merely temposary, and dies with him. Each tribe has one or two chief warriors; which dignity is alfo hereditary, and has a peculiar name attached to it. Thefe are the only titles of distinction which are permanent in the nation; for although any Indian may, by fuperior talents, either as a counsellor or as a warrior, acquire influence in the nation, yet it is not in his power to transmit this to his family. The Indians have also their great women as well as their great men, to whofe opinions they pay great deference; and this distinction is also bereditary in families. They do not fit in coun. cil with the fachems, but have separate ones of their own. When war is declared, the fachems and great women generally give up the management of public affairs into the hands of the warriors. But a fachem may at the same time be alfo a chief warrior. (1.) SIX-MILE BRIDGE, a town of Ireland, in Clare county, Munster: 102 miles from Dublin. Lon. 8. 40. W. Lat. 52. 40. N. (2.) SIX MILE BRIDGE, a small town of Ireland, in Limerick county, Munfter. * SIXPENCE. n. s. [six and pence.] · A coin; half a fhilling Where have you left the money that I Oh!-sixpence that I had. The wifeft man might blush, gave Shak. If D-loved sixpence more than be. Pope *SIXSCORE. adj. [six and score.] Six times twen ty-Sixscore and five miles it containeth. Sandys. The crown of Spain hath enlarged the bounds thereof within this laf sixscore years. Baton SIXT, a town of France, in the dep. of Ille and Vilaine; 6 miles N. of Redon, and 25 SSW, of Rennes. * SIXTEEN. adj. [sixtyne, Sax.] Six and ten. I have heard of others that it would return sixteen times. Bacon-If men lived but twenty years, we should be satisfied if they died about sixteen. Taylor. SIXTEENTH. adj. [sixteotha, Saxon.] The fixth after the tenth; the ordinal of fixteen.-The sixteenth to Immer. 1 Chron. xxiv. 14. (1.) * SIXTH. adj. [sixta, Sax.] The first after the fifth; the ordind of fix. Shak. You are more clement than vile men, Who of their broken debtors take A sixth, letting them thrive again. There fucceeded to the kingdom of England James the Sixth. Bacon. (2.) * SIXTH. n. s. A fixth part.-Five sixths of the whole globe would have been rendered useless. Cheyne. (3.) SIXTH, in music, one of the simple original concords, or harmonical intervals. See INTERVAL, § III. (4.) SIXTH MAJOR. See MUSIC, Defin. § 9. (5.) SIXTH MINOR. SIXTHLY. adv. [from six.] In the fixth place. Sixthly, living creatures have more diverfity of organs than plants. Bacon. * SIXTIETH. adj. sixteogotha, Saxon.] The tenth fix times repeated; the ordinal of fixty.→→ Let the appearing circle of the fire be three foot diameter, and the time of one entire circulation of it the sixtieth part of a minute, in a whole day there will be but 86,400 fuch partɛ. Digby. SIXTUS I. bifhop of Rome, according to Dr Watkins, fucceeded Alexander I. A. D. 119; fuf fered martyrdom for Christianity, A. D. 127: and was afterwards canonized as a faint. But Alftedius and Marcel place his accession in 131-2, and kis martyrdom in 142. SIXTUS II. a native of Athens, fucceeded Stephen I. as bishop of Rome, A. D. 237. He fuf. fered martyrdom during the perfecution under Valerian, 3 days before his disciple St Lawrence, A. D. 258. Sixtus III. was a priest in the Roman church, and was elected pope in 432. He was an author, and his Epiftles are extant. He fuppreffed the herefies of Pelagius and Neftorius in the Weft; and died in 440. SIXTUS IV. was the fon of a fisherman, born in 1412, and, entering among the Cordeliers, became very learned. He was eminent as a profeffor of theology, in feveral universities in Italy, and was raised to the cardinalship by Paul II. whom he fucceeded in 1471. He attempted to ftir up a new croifade, but without fuccefs; but obtained fome fignal advantages over the Turks by his own galleys. He wrote feveral Treatifes on Theology; but gave offence even to Catholics, by publishing a bull ordaining an annual feftival in honour of the immaculate conception. He died in 1484, aged 72. SIXTUS V. Pope, was born the 13th Dec. 1521, in La Marca, a village in the feigniory of Montalto. His father, Francis Peretti, was a gardener, and his mother a fervant maid. He was their eldeft child, and was called Felix. At the age of 9 he was hired out to an inhabitant of the village to keep sheep; but disobliging his mafter, he was degraded to be keeper of the bogs. He was engaged in this employment when F. Michael Angelo Selleri, a Francifcan friar, asked the road to Afcoli, where he was going to preach. Young Felix conducted him thither, and ftruck the father fo much with his eagerness for knowledge, that he recommended him to the fraternity to which he had come. Ac cordingly he was invefted with the habit of a lay brother, and placed under the facriftan, to affift in fweeping the church, lighting the candles, and the like; for which he was to be taught the refponfes, and the rudiments of grammar. His progrefs in learning was fo furprising, that at the age of 14 he was qualified to begin his noviciate, and was admitted at 15 to make his profeffion. He pursued his ftudies with unwearied affiduity; and was ordained prieft in 1545, when he affumed the name of Father Montalto; foon after he took his doctor's degree, and was appointed profeffor of theology at Sienna; where he fo effectually recommended himself to Card. di Carpi, and his fecretary Bof fius, that they ever remained his fteady friends. Meanwhile the feverity and obftinacy of his temper inceffantly engaged him in difputes with his monaftic brethren. His reputation for eloquence, which was now fpread over Italy, about this time gained him fome new friends. Among thefe were the Colonna family, and F. Ghifilieri, by whofe recommendation he was appointed inquifitor-general at Venice; but he exercised that office with fo much feverity, that he was obliged to flee precipitately from that city. Upon this he went to Rome, where he was made procurator-general of his order, and foon after accompanied Card. Buon Compagnon into Spain, as a chaplain and confult or to the inquifition; where he was treated with great refpect. Pius IV. dying, Father Ghifilieri, or Cardinal Alexandrino fucceeded him under the name of Pius V and Montalto was immediately invefted by the pontiff with new dignities. He was made general of his order, bishop of St Aga tha, raifed to the dignity of cardinal, and received a penfion. About this time he was employed by the Pope to draw up the bill of excommunication againft Q. Elizabeth. He began now to look to. wards the papacy; and, to obtain it, formed and executed a plan of hypocrify with unparalleled conftancy and fuccefs. He became humble, patient, and affable. He changed his dress, his air, his words, and his actions, fo completely, that his moft intimate friends declared him a new man. Never was there such an absolute victory gained over the paffions; never was a fictitious character fo well maintained, nor the foibles of human nature fo artfully concealed. He had formerly treat. ed his relations with the greatest tenderness, but he now changed his behaviour to them entirely. When Pius V. died in 1572, he entered the conclave with the other cardinals, but seemed altogether indifferent about the election, and never left his apartment except to his devotion. When Card. Buon Compagnon, or Gregory XIII. was elected, Montalto flattered him, but the new Pope treated him with the greatest contempt, and deprived him of his penfion. He now affumed all the infirmities of old age; his head hung down upon his fhoulders; he tottered as he walked, and fupported himself on a ftaff. His voice became feeble, and was often interrupted by a cough so exceedingly fevere, that it seemed every moment to threaten his diffolution. He interfered in no public tranfactions, but spent his whole time in acts of devotion and benevolence. Mean time he conftantly employed the ableft fpies, who brought him intelligence of every particular. When Gregory XIII. died in 1585, he entered the conclave with reluctance, and appeared perfectly indifferent about the event of the election. He joined no party, yet flattered all. He knew that there would be divifions in the conclave, and that when the leaders of the different parties were disappointed in their own views, they often agreed in the election of fome old and infirm cardinal, the brevity of whofe life would foon occafion a new vacancy. Three cardinals, the leaders of oppofite factions, being unable to procure the election which each of them wifhed, unanimously agreed to make choice of Montalto. When they came to acquaint him with their intention, he fell into a violent fit of coughing, and told them that his reign would laft but a few days. He conjured them to take the whole weight of affairs upon their own fhoul. ders. The cardinals fwallowed the bait, and Mon. talto was elected. He now pulled off the mask which he had worn for 14 years. No fooner was his election secured, than he started from his feat, and appeared almost a foot taller than he had done for several years. His former complaisance and humility disappeared, together with his infirmities, and he now treated all around him with referve and haughtinefs. The first care of Sixtus V. was to correct the abuses, and put a stop to the enormities, daily committed in the ecclefiafti cal ftate. The lenity of Gregory's government had introduced a general licentiousness of manners. It had been ufual with former popes to release de. linquents on the day of their coronation, who therefore furrendered themselves voluntarily pri foners after the election of the Pope. When the governor of Rome and the keeper of St Angelo waited on his Holinefs, to know his intention in this particular, he replied, "We have too long feen the the prodigious degree of wickednefs that reigns in make a princess of you but ourselves." He ftipu the ftate to think of granting pardons. Let the lated with his fifter, that she should neither ask any prifoners be brought to a speedy trial, and punish- favour in matters of government, nor intercede for ed as they deferve, to show the world that Divine criminals, nor interfere in the adminiftration of jufProvidence has called us to the chair of St Peter, tice; declaring that fuch requests would meet with to reward the good, and chastise the wicked; that a certain refufal. These terms being agreed to, and we bear not the fword in vain, but are the minif punctually observed, he made the most ample pro ter of God, and a revenger to execute wrath on vifion not only for Camilla but for his whole relathem that do evil." Accordingly he appointed tions. This great man was alfo an encourager of commiffioners to infpect the conduct of the judges, learning. He caufed an Italian translation of the difplaced those who were inclined to lenity, and Bible to be published, which raised a good deal of put others of fevere difpofitions in their room. difcontent among the Catholics. When fome car. He offered rewards to any person who could con- dinals reproached him for his conduct in this revict them of corruption or partiality. He order. fpect, he replied, "It was published for the beneed the fyndics of all the towns and figniories to fit of you cardinals who cannot read Latin." He make out a complete lift of the diforderly perfons died 27th Aug. 1590, after a reign of little more within their districts. The fyndic of Albano was than years. To the indulgence of a difpofition fcourged in the market-place, because he had left naturally fevere, all the defects of this wonderful his nephew, an incorrigible libertine, out of his man are to be afcribed. Clemency was a ftranger lift. He made laws equally fevere and just against to his bofom; his punishments were often too robbers and affaffins. Adulterers, when difcover- cruel, and feemed fometimes to border on revenge. ed, fuffered death; and they who willingly fub- But though the conduct of Sixtus feldom excites mitted to the proftitution of their wives, a custom love, it generally commands our esteem and fomethen common in Rome, received the fame punish- times our admiration, He ftrenuously defended ment. He was particularly careful of the purity the caufe of the poor, the widow, and the orphan; of the female fex, and never forgave those who he never refufed audience to the injured, however attempted to debauch them. His execution of wretched or forlorn. He never forgave those majuftice was as prompt as his edicts were rigorous. giftrates who were convicted of partiality or corA Swifs happening to give a Spanish gentleman a ruption; nor fuffered crimes to pafs unpunished, blow with his halberd, was struck by him so rude- whether committed by the rich or the poor. He ly with a pilgram's ftaff that he expired on the was frugal, temperate, fober, and never neglected pot. Sixtus informed the governor of Rome that to reward the fmalleft favour which had been conhe was to dine early, and that juftice must be exe- ferred on him before his exaltation. When he cuted on the criminal before he fat down to table, mounted the throne, the treasury was not only exThe Spanish ambaffador and four cardinals in haufted, but in debt; at his death it contained treated him not to difgrace the gentleman by fuf- five millions of gold, Rome was indebted to him fering him to die on a gibbet, but to order him to for feveral of her greatest embellishments, particube beheaded." He fhall be hanged, (replied Six- larly the Vatican library; it was by him, too, that tus,) but I will alleviate his difgrace by doing him trade was first introduced into the Ecclefiaftical the honour to assist personally at his death,' He State. And he allotted 3000 crowns a-year for ordered a gibbet to be erected before his own win- the redemption of Chriftian flaves from the Turks. dows, where he continued fitting during the whole execution. When Sixtus afcended the throne, the whole ecclefiaftical state was infested with bands of robbers, who from their numbers and outrages, were exceedingly formidable; but by his vigorous conduct, he foon extirpated the whole of these banditti. Nor was the vigour of his condua lefs confpicuous in his tranfactions with foreign nations. Before he had been pope 2 months, he quarrelled with Philip II. of Spain, Henry III. of France, and Henry king of Navarre. His intrigues indeed in fome measure influenced all the councils of Europe. After his acceffion to the pontificate, he fent for his family to Rome, with orders that they should appear in a decent and modeft manner. Accordingly, his fifter Camilla came thither, accompanied by her daughter and two grand-children. Some cardinals, to pay court to the pope, went out to meet her, and introduced ber in a very magnificent drefs. Sixtus pretended not to know her, and asked two or three times who he was. Her conductors at last found it ne, ceffary to carry her to an inn, and ftrip her of her finery. When Camilla was again introduced, Sixtus embraced her tenderly, and faid, "Now we know indeed that it is our fifter; nobody thall * SIXTY. adj. [sixtig, Saxon.] Six times ten. -When the boats were come within sixty yards. of the pillar, they found themfelves all bound. Bacon.-Of which 7 times 9, or the year 63, is conceived to carry with it the most confiderable fatality. Brown. SIYA-GHUSH, the CARACAL of Buffon, a species of LYNX. See FELIS, N° XIII. SIZAR, or SIZER, in Latin Sizator, an appel. lation by which the loweft order of ftudents in the univerfities of Cambridge and Dublin are diftinguished, is derived from the word To size, which in Cambridge, in the language of the univerfity fignifies to get any fort of victuals from the kit. chens which the ftudents may want in their own rooms, or in addition to their commons in the hall, and for which they pay the cooks or butchers at the end of each quarter. A fize of any thing is the fmalleft quantity of the thing which can be thus bought; two fizes or a part of beef, being nearly equal to what a young perfon will eat of that difh to his dinner; and a fize of ale or beer being equal to half an English pint. The fizars are divided into two claffes, viz. SUBSIZATORES or fizars, and SIZATORES, or proper fizars, The former are supplied with commons from the table of the fellows and fellow-commoners; and in former times, when thefe were more fcanty than they are now, they were obliged to fupply the deficiency by fizing, as is fometimes the cafe till. The proper fizars had formerly no commons at all. In St John's college they have now fome commons allowed them for dinner, from a benefaction; but they are still obliged to fize their fuppers. In the other colleges they are allowed a part of the fellow's commons, but muft ze the reft; and from being thus obliged to fize the whole or part of their victuals, the whole order derived the name of fixars. In Oxford, the order fimilar to that of fizar is denominated fervitor, a name evidently derived from the menial duties which they perform. In both univerfities thefe orders were formerly diftinguished by round caps and gowns of different materials from those of the pensioners or commoners, the order immediately above them. But about 40 years ago the round cap was entirely abolished in both feminaries. There is ftill, however, in Oxford, we believe, a diftinction in the gowns, and there is also a trifling difference in fome of the fmall colleges in Cambridge; but in the large colleges the drefs of the penfioners and fizars is entirely the fame. In Oxford, the fervi. tors are still obliged to wait at table on the fellows and gentlemen commoners; bu, much to the credit of the univerfity of Cambridge, this moft degrading custom was entirely abolished about 40 years ago, and of courfe the fizars of Cambridge are now on a much more refpectable footing than the fervitors of Oxford. The fizars are not upon the foundation, and therefore while they continue fizars are not capable of being elected fellows; but they may at any time if they choose, become penfioners: and they generally fit for fcholarthips immediately before they take their firft degree. If fuccefsful, they are then on the foundation, and are entitled to become candidates for fellowships when they have got that degree. In the mean time, while they continue fizars, besides the freecommons they enjoy many benefactions, which have been made at different times, under the name of fixar's, prætor, exhibitions, &c. and the rate of tuition, the rent of rooms, and other things of that fort within their respective colleges, is lefs than to the other orders. But though their edu. cation is thus obtained at a less expense, they are not now considered as a menial order; for sizars, pensioner fcholars, and even fometimes fellowcommoners, mix together with the utmost cordiality. It is worthy of remark, that at every period this order has fupplied the university with its most diftinguished officers; and that many of the moft illuftrious members of the church, many of the most diftinguifhed men in the other liberal profeffions, have, when under-graduates, been sizars, when that order was on a lefs refpectable footing than it is now. The distance judged for shot of every size. Dryden. Objects near our view are thought greater than thofe of a larger size, that are more remote. Loche. The martial goddess, Like thee Telemachus, in voice and size. Papr. 2. [Affife, old French.] A fettled quantity. In the following paffage it feems to signify the allow ance of the the table: whence they lay a sizer at Cambridge.'Tis not in thee To cut off my train, to scant my sizes. Shak. 3. Figurative bulk; condition. This agreee too in the contempt of men of a lefs size. L'Estrange. They do not consider the difference between elaborate difcourfes, and a plain fermon, for the middling or lower size of people. Savift. 4. [Sija, Italian. Any viscous or glutinous fubftance. (2.) SIZE, the name of an inftrument used for finding the bignefs of fine round pearls. It consifts of thin pieces or leaves, about two inches long, and half an inch broad, fastened together at one end by a rivet. In each of thefe are round holes drilled of different diameters. Thofe in the first leaf ferve for meafuring pearls from half a grain to 7 grains; thofe of the fecond, for pearls from 8 grains or two carats to five carats, &c.; and thofe of the third, for pearls from 64 carats to 84. (3.) SIZE is alfo a fort of paint, varnish, or blue, used by painter's, &c. The fhreds and parings of leather, parchment, or vellum, being boiled in water and ftrained, make size. This fubftance is much used in many trades.-The manner of using size is to melt fome of it over a gentle fire; and fcraping as much whiting into it as will just colour it, let them be well incorporated together; after which you may whiten frames, &e. with it. After it dries, melt the size again, and put more whiting, and whiten the frames, &c. feven or eight times, letting it dry between each time: but before it is quite dry, between each washing with size, you must fmoothe and wet it over with a clean bruth pencil in fair water. (4.) SIZE, GOLD. To make gold size, take gum animi and afphaltum, of each one ounce; minium, litharge of gold, and amber, of each half an ounce: reduce all into a very fine powder, and add to them four ounces of linfeed oil, and eight ounces of drying oil; digeft them over a gen. tle fire that does not flame, fo that the mixture may only simmer, but not boil; left it should run over and fer the houfe on fire, ftir it constantly with a stick till all the ingredients are diffolved and incorporated, and do not leave off ftirring till it becomes thick and ropy; after being fufficiently boiled, let it ftand till it is almoft cold, and then ftrain it through a coarfe linen cloth, and keep it for ule. To prepare it for working, put what quantity you pleafe in an horfe-raufele fhell, att SIZATORES. See the last article. ding as much oil of turpentine as will diffolve it; (1.)* SIZE, . . [perhaps rather cifes from in and making it as thin as the bottom of your feedcifa, Latin; or from affe, French] . Bull; lac varnish, hold it over a candle, and then. ftrain quantity of fuperficies: comparative magnitude. it through a linen-rag into another fhell; add to With all the size that verity these as much vermilion as will make it of a darkWould without lapsing suffer. Shak. if red if it is too thick for drawing, you may -If any decayed fhip be new made, it is more thin it with fome ail of turpentine. The chief fit to make her a size less than bigger. Raleigh. ufe of this size is for laying on metals. The best gold |