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Pronunciation : Dose
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [F. dose, Gr. dare to give. See Date point of time.]
Definition : 1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

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

3. 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Dose
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Cf. F. doser. See Dose, n.]
Definition : 1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

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. To give anything nauseous to.

t. [imp. & p. p. Dosed; p. pr. & vb. n. dosing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913