unsized
/ʌnˈsʌɪzd
/adjective
(Of fabric, paper, or a wall) not treated with size.A document handwritten with a special ink would be placed against a dampened, unsized sheet of paper and both would be squeezed in a copying press; the pressure transferred some of the document's ink onto the blank sheet....
- Dissolve the cobalt in the water and add the sugar, saturate unsized paper in the solution, and hang up to dry.
- This occurs more often on unsized papers, but can occur on sized papers as well, when pigment is used in excess.
Rhymes
- satsuma
- sattva
- sattvic
- saturable
- saturant
- saturate
- saturated
- saturated fat
- saturation
- saturation diving
- saturation point
- Saturday
- Saturdaying
- Saturday night
- Saturday nighter
- Saturday night palsy
- Saturday night paralysis
- Saturday-night pistol
- Saturday night soldier
- Saturday night special
- Saturday penny
- Saturday Sabbath
- Saturday soldier
- Saturday-to-Monday
- Saturn