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<h1>Doryphora</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Do*ryph"o*ra</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL. See <er>Doryphoros</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See <er>Potato beetle</er>.</def>

<h1>Doryphoros</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Do*ryph"o*ros</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., fr. Gr. <?/, lit., spear bearing; <?/ a spear + <?/ to bear.]</ety> <fld>(Fine Arts)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Dose</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Dose</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>dose</ets>, Gr. <?/ a giving, a dose, fr. <?/ to give; akin to L. <ets>dare</ets> to give. See <er>Date</er> point of time.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.</def>

<blockquote>I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent <b>doses</b>. <i> W. Irving.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I dare undertake that as fulsome a <b>dose</b> as you give him, he shall readily take it down. <i> South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dose</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Dose</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dosed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>dosing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>doser</ets>. See <er>Dose</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.</def>

<blockquote>A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall <b>dose</b>, and bleed, and kill him, "secundum artem." <i> South</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To give anything nauseous to.</def>

<h1>Dosel</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Dos"el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>dossel</ets>; cf. LL. <ets>dorsale</ets>. See <er>Dorsal</er>, and cf. <er>Dorse</er>, <er>Dorsel</er>.]</ety> <def>Same as <er>Dorsal</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Dosology</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Do*sol"o*gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Dose</ets> +-<ets>logy</ets>.]</ety> <def>Posology.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Ogilvie.</i>

<h1>Dossel</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Dos"sel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Dosel</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>Same as <er>Dorsal</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def>

<h1>Dosser</h1> <Xpage=446>

<hw>Dos"ser</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>dosserum</ets>, or F.<ets>dossier</ets> bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back, fr. L. <ets>dorsum</ets> back. See <er>Dorsal</er>, and cf. <er>Dosel</er>.]</ety> <altsp>[Written also <asp>dorser</asp> and <asp>dorsel</asp>.]</altsp>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A pannier, or basket.</def>

<blockquote>To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new <b>dossers</b>. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>