Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dose \Dose\ (d[=o]s), n. [F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose,
   fr. dido`nai to give; akin to L. dare to give. See {Date}
   point of time.]
   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.

Dose \Dose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dosed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {dosing}.] [Cf. F. doser. See {Dose}, n.]
   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.''                   -- South

   3. To give anything nauseous to.

Source : WordNet®

dose
     v 1: treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the
          paint"
     2: administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"
        [syn: {drug}]

dose
     n 1: a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
     2: the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation)
        taken in or absorbed at any one time [syn: {dosage}]
     3: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: {acid}, {back
        breaker}, {battery-acid}, {dot}, {Elvis}, {loony toons}, {Lucy
        in the sky with diamonds}, {pane}, {superman}, {window
        pane}, {Zen}]