[syn: drug, dose]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give
potions to, constantly and without need.
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A self-opinioned physician, worse than his
distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him,
"secundum artem." -- South
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3. To give anything nauseous to.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take,
or as falls to one to receive.
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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.
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I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not
by violent doses. -- W. Irving.
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I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give
him, he shall readily take it down. -- South.
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4. a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to
which it is exposed.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dose
n 1: a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time [syn:
dose, dosage]
2: the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation)
taken in or absorbed at any one time [syn: dose, dosage]
3: a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or
genital contact [syn: venereal disease, VD, venereal
infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's
disease, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted
disease, STD]
4: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid,
back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis,
loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane,
superman, window pane, Zen]
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, dose]