From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dose \Dose\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dose \Dose\ (d[=o]s), noun [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 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.
4. a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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}]
3: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: {acid}, {back breaker}, {battery-acid}, {dot}, {Elvis}, {loony toons}, {Lucy in the sky with diamonds}, {pane}, {superman}, {window pane}, {Zen}]
verb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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