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Dose   /doʊs/   Listen
noun
Dose  n.  
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." "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.


verb
Dose  v. t.  (past & past part. dosed; pres. part. dosing)  
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.





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"Dose" Quotes from Famous Books



... affair to dress his wound, and not to pump him, as I should have done if he had taken a dose of poison," laughed the doctor. "But I think you need have no anxiety about my patient, for I have no doubt he will do ...
— Asiatic Breezes - Students on The Wing • Oliver Optic
... haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot."[119] This rung out as the first cheering, stimulating indication of a fighting temper at the North. It was a tonic which came at a time of sore need, and for too long a while it remained the solitary dose! ...
— Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I. • John T. Morse
... departed down the road, Levi stood for a while at the open door, looking after the dusky figures until they were swallowed in the darkness. Then he turned, came in, shut the door, shuddered, took a final dose of the apple brandy and went to bed, without, since his first suppressed explosion, having said a single word ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle
... lieutenant said. "The doctor made a complaint that his leeches had got out of their bottle, and were all over the ship; and I fancy one of them got into his bed, somehow. He had given Mr. Sankey a dose of physic in the morning; and remembered afterwards that, while he was making up the medicine, Sankey had been doing something in the corner where his bottles were. When I questioned Sankey about it, ...
— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty
... the same might seem strange, Miss, Were it not that I scorn to deny That I raised his last dose, for a change, Miss, In view that his fever was high; But he lies there quite peaceful and pensive. And now, my respects, Miss, to you; Which my language, although comprehensive, Might seem to ...
— Complete Poetical Works of Bret Harte • Bret Harte


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