Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.