2. (n.) A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
3. (n.) Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.
4. (n.) To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
5. (n.) To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.
6. (n.) To give anything nauseous to.