Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dose"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dose \Dose\ (d[=o]s), n. [F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose,
fr. dido`nai 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 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dose \Dose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dosed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{dosing}.] [Cf. F. 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.'' -- South
3. To give anything nauseous to.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dose
n 1: a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
2: the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation)
taken in or absorbed at any one time [syn: {dosage}]
v 1: treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the
paint"
2: administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"
[syn: {drug}]
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