DOSE

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

2.
n.

A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.

3.
n.

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.

4.
v.

To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

5.
v.

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

6.
v.

To give anything nauseous to.

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