Dose

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun To give anything nauseous to.

II. Dose ·noun The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

III. Dose ·noun Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.

IV. Dose ·noun A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.

V. Dose ·noun To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.

VI. Dose ·noun To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.