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.