Vocabulary : Dory to dosing

Dory : A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree. ;; The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch. ;; A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
Doryphora : A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.
Doryphoros : A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.
Dos-a-dos : Back to back; as, to sit dos-a-dos in a dogcart; to dance dos-a-dos, or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back. ;; A sofa, open carriage, or the like, so constructed that the occupants sit back to back.
Dosage : The administration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc. ;; The process of adding some ingredient, as to wine, to give flavor, character, or strength.

Dose : 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.
Dosed : of Dose
Dosel : Same as Dorsal, n.
Dosimetry : Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules.
dosing : of Dose

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