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