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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



... then, he had come to him, if he was prepared to play him false. One of the soldiers said bluntly, that as Angelo's appearance answered to the portrait of a man for whom they were on the lookout, they would, if their countryman liked, take him and give him a dose of marching ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... suppers hot, With bards of fame, like Hogg and Packwood; A dose of black-strap then I got, And after a still ...
— A Publisher and His Friends • Samuel Smiles
... most extravagant hopes of our most reckless dreamers are fulfilled, that England is crowded out of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and is involved in a long-lasting war with the native Indians. An impossibly large dose of political naivete is needed in order to make us believe that England would take this ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... plane, either coming up laden with tribute, or going down bearing commands. Where there was no tribute and no command, why send them? Why send to the very people who had robbed China of her supremacy! It was a bitter pill, and she long refused to swallow it. Hart gilded the dose and she took it. Obtaining leave to go home to get married, he proposed that he should be accompanied by his teacher, Pinchun, a learned Manchu, as unofficial envoy—with the agreeable duty to see and report. It was a travelling commission, not like that of ...
— The Awakening of China • W.A.P. Martin
... Correggio at least we feel that they could not have been what they were without it. Napoleon, whose nerves were like steel wires, suffered nevertheless from a peculiar kind of physical sensitiveness. He could not take medicines like other men,—a small dose had a terrible effect on him,— and it was much the same with respect to changes of food, climate, ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns


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