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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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