Dose
Dose (dōs) , noun
[French dose, Greek do`sis a giving, a dose, from dido`nai to give; akin to Latin dare to give. See Date point of time.]
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 unpleasant that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one; also used figuratively, as to give someone a dose of his own medicine, that is to retaliate in kind.
I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses.
I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down.
4.
a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed.
Dose , transitive verb
[Compare French doser. See Dose, n.]
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.”
3.
To give anything nauseous to.