dose

dose is a   Noun

Definition:

[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 nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one. I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. W. Irving. I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. South.

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