Definition of dose

• n. - The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
• n. - A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
• n. - Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.
• n. - To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
• n. - To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.
• n. - To give anything nauseous to.