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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.

Same as Dorsal, n. [R.]

Frond bearing; resembling a frond; having a simple expansion not separable into stem and leaves.

Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.

To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to.

Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.

A dose which is less than required; a small or insufficient dose.

To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc. A noxious drug had been administered to him. Macaulay.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

A bolus; a dose. Coleridge. Armenian bole. See under Armenian. -- Bole Armoniac, or Armoniak, Armenian bole. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Poisoning induced by large doses of bromine and iodine or of their compounds.

trong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.

A small cylindrical or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.

The administration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.

Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules. --Do`si*met"ric (#), a. --Do*sim"e*trist (#), n.

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." Trench.

Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.

To dose to excess with, or as with, drugs. With pleasure drugged, he almost longed for woe. Byron.

A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats. Apidose fin. (Zoöl.) See under Adipose, a. -- Fin ray (Anat.), one of the hornlike, cartilaginous, or bony, dermal rods which form the skeleton of the fins of fishes. -- Fin whale (Zoöl.), a finback. -- Paired fins (Zoöl.), the pectoral and ventral fins, corresponding to t…

Frondose. [R.]