3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dose \Dose\ (d[=o]s), n. [F. dose, Gr do`sis a giving, a dose,
fr dido`nai to give akin to L. dare to give See {Date}
point of time.]
1. The quantity of medicine given or prescribed to be taken
at one time.
2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take
or as falls to one to receive.
3. Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take a
disagreeable portion thrust upon one
I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not
by violent doses. -- W. Irving.
I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give
him he shall readily take it down -- South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dose \Dose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dosed}; p. pr & vb n.
{dosing}.] [Cf. F. doser. See {Dose}, n.]
1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the
patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
2. To give doses to to medicine or physic to to give
potions to constantly and without need
A self-opinioned physician, worse than his
distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him
``secundum artem.'' -- South
3. To give anything nauseous to
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dose
n 1: a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
2: the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation)
taken in or absorbed at any one time [syn: {dosage}]
v 1: treat with an agent; add (an agent) to "The ray dosed the
paint"
2: administer a drug to "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"
[syn: {drug}]
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