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Entry 7 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Dose

/(dōs)/ · IPA /doʊs/
01 n. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
  1. 1.
    The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
  2. 2.
    A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
  3. 3.
    Anything unpleasant that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one; also used figuratively, as to give someone a dose of his own medicine, i. e. to retaliate in kind.
    “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.
  4. 4.
    a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed.
02 v. t. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
imp. & p. p. Dosed; p. pr. & vb. n. dosing
  1. 1.
    To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
  2. 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. 3.
    To give anything nauseous to.