doses
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A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
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The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
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(figurative, dated) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
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(figurative) A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
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(Ireland, colloquial) A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.
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(dated) A venereal infection.
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Archaic form of doze. [A light, short sleep or nap.]
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(transitive) To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
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To prescribe a dose.
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(transitive) To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
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(transitive, dated) To transmit a venereal disease to.
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Archaic form of doze. [(intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.]
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