The Clue
Medicine portion (4 letter answer)
The Answer
DOSE
Tags
Notes
The answer DOSE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 130 puzzles.
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Portion
Potion
Quantity
Shot
Amount, to an R.N.
Bit of medicine
One bit of medicine
Bit of reality?
Capsule contents
Give medicine to
Healthy amount?
Measured amount
Measured quantity
Medicinal amount
Medicine measure
Pharmaceutical amount
Pill allotment
Ply with a potion
Portion of a potion
Potion portion
Prescribed amount
Prescribed quantity
Prescription amount
Prescription info
Prescription particular
Recommended amount
Rx datum
Spoonful, say
One tablet, maybe
One teaspoon, maybe
Treat, in a way
10 cc, perhaps
Medicine-bottle word
Teaspoon or tablet, say
Trio, with dese and dem
Two caplets, e.g.
Two caplets, maybe
Two caplets, say
Two teaspoons, e.g.
Two teaspoons, say
One teaspoonful or two caplets, maybe
Definition
DOSE as a noun:
1. a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
2. (dose, dosage) = the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
3. (venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, sexually transmitted disease, dose) = a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
4. (acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen) = street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
DOSE as a verb:
1. treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the paint"
2. (drug, dose) = administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"