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A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca. [Obs.] Parr.

plaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. [Written also homoepathy.]

A dose of physic for a horse. Shak.

A form of capsule for inclosing a dose of medicine that is offensive, caustic, or the like.

condiment and a rubefacient. Taken internally it is stimulant and diuretic, and in large doses is emetic. Mustard oil (Chem.), a substance obtained from mustard, as a transparent, volatile and intensely pungent oil. The name is also extended to a number of analogous compounds produced either naturally or artificially.…

A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Ne…

The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness. Holland.

Nodose; knotty; knotted. [Obs.]

Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.

Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty.

s a white crystalline substance, which has a strong acid taste, and is poisonous in large doses. It is used in dyeing, calico printing, bleaching flax and straw, the preparation of formic acid, and in salts of lemon for removing ink stains, mold, etc.

The science or doctrine of doses; dosology.

A draught; a dose; usually, a draught or dose of a liquid medicine. Shak.

bitter taste. It is often used medicinally as an expectorant and diuretic, and, in large doses, as an emetic and cathartic. [Written also Senega root, and Seneka root.]

The power possessed or acquired by some persons of bearing doses of medicine which in ordinary cases would prove injurious or fatal. Tolerance of the mint. (Coinage) Same as Remedy of the mint. See under Remedy.

with a noun, and written with or without the hyphen; as, an undercurrent; undertone; underdose; under-garment; underofficer; undersheriff. Under covert (Zoöl.), one of the feathers situated beneath the bases of the quills in the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. under Bird.

the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.