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Webster 1913 Edition


Dose

Dose

(dōs)
,
Noun.
[F.
dose
, Gr.
δόσισ
a giving, a dose, fr.
διδόναι
to give; akin to L.
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, i. e. to retaliate in kind
.
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.

Dose

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dosed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
dosing
.]
[Cf. F.
doser
. See
Dose
,
Noun.
]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dose

DOSE

,
Noun.
[Gr., that which is give; to give.]
1.
The quantity of medicine give or prescribed to be taken at one time.
2.
Any thing given to be swallowed; any thing nauseous, that one is obliged to take.
3.
A quantity; a portion.
4.
As much as a man can swallow.

DOSE

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To proportion a medicine properly to the patient or disease; to form into suitable doses.
2.
To give in doses; to give medicine or physic.
3.
To give any thing nauseous.

Definition 2024


dôse

dôse

See also: dose, Dose, dosé, dōse, dosë, and döse

Norman

Noun

dôse f (plural dôses)

  1. (Jersey, literary) dose