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Dose

noun

1.

A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time. Synonym: dosage.

2.

The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time. Synonym: dosage.

3.

A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact. Synonyms: Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse.

4.

Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide. Synonyms: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen.

verb

(past & past part. dosed; pres. part. dosing)

1.

Treat with an agent; add (an agent) to.

2.

Administer a drug to. Synonym: drug.

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"Dose" Quotes from Famous Books

... addressed by his son Pietro to Francesco Nelli, died of a dose of medicine taken at the wrong time. He was attended on his deathbed by a friar, who received his confession. His private morality was but indifferent. His contempt for weakness and simplicity was undisguised. His knowledge ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds

... himself. "I must lie a little longer," and with that he kneeled and then lay along the mattress. He breathed heavily and pointed to the pannikin. I asked him whether he would have wine or brandy; he answered, "Wine," so I melted a draught, which dose, I thought, on top of what he had already taken, would send him to sleep; but instead it quickened his spirits, and with no lack of life in his voice he said, "What is the condition ...

— The Frozen Pirate • W. Clark Russell

... have shown that the body can learn to use a poison and not become sick from it. The poison of a rattlesnake is deadly to most animals; but if a tiny bit of the poison is put under the skin of the rabbit one day and then on each succeeding day a little larger dose of the poison is given the rabbit for a long time, the animal will become so accustomed to the poison that the bite of a rattlesnake will not harm it. It is the same way with tobacco. Little by little the body learns to overcome the effects of the poison, but ...

— Health Lessons - Book 1 • Alvin Davison

... can play it I do not know. It is such a singularly unbecoming instrument. But the wretched owner never seems to think so. When he once commences he gives us a good dose of it. We begin to think he is going on all night. Suddenly there comes a pause, and applause is started at once, we being only too delighted to make a little noise on our own account. But no—it is a mistake, ...

— Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl - Sister of that "Idle Fellow." • Jenny Wren

... course, master, and could make him sign what he pleased, and give land rent-free to whom he pleased; but his successor must now be considered the best judge whether they could be spared or not; that if lands were to be alienated in perpetuity by every reigning Nawab for every dose of medicine or dose of prayers that he or the members of his family required, none would soon be left for the payment of the soldiers, or other necessary public servants of any description'. This was told me by the son of the old physician, who was the person to whom the speech was made, ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

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