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

Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.

Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

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

spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. Shak.

The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, . . . still thou art a bitter draught. Sterne. Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Goldsmith.

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.

A sleeping potion; an opiate. Chaucer.

A philter or love potion. [Obs.] Shak.

A potion of spirit drank at bedtime. [Cant] Wright.

A potion or charm intended to excite the passion of love. [Written also philtre.] Addison.

Tending to induce sleep; soporiferous; somniferous; as, a sleepy drink or potion. Chaucer.

Causing or inducing sleep; soporific; dormitive; as, a somniferous potion. Walton.

A medicine or mixture; a potion. Shak.

e impudent yet, that I was not taken down." Goldsmith. (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold. (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them. -- To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and…

eful in healing wounds; adapted to the cure of external injuries; as, vulnerary plants or potions. "Such vulnerary remedies." Sir W. Scott. -- n. Etym: [Cf. F. vulnéraire.] (Med.)