The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
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.
a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed.
To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.
To give anything nauseous to.
To slumber; to sleep lightly; to be in a dull or stupefied condition, as if half asleep; to be drowsy.
To pass or spend in drowsiness; as, to doze away one’s time.
To make dull; to stupefy.
A light sleep; a drowse.
