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n. [ L. adosculari, adosculatum, to kiss. See Osculate. ] (Biol.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A disorder characterized by deposit of extracellular amyloid{ 2 } in organs or tissues in an amount that interferes with normal function of the affected organ; it is often secondary to chronic rheumatoid arthritis or tuberculosis or multiple myeloma. Called also amyloid degeneration waxy degeneration and lardaceous degeneration. [ WordNet 1.5 + AS ]

n. 1. dark grayish extrusive rock. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to give back; &unr_; from, back again + &unr_; to give. ] (Gram.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, ” the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some grammarians extend the terms protasis and apodosis to the introductory clause and the concluding clause, even when the sentence is not conditional. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. --
Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. --
Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Pg. botoque stopple. So called because they wear a wooden plug in the pierced lower lip. ] A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called Aymborés. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Pg. ] Chamber; house; -- used in and See Legislature. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a genus of frilled lizards.
Syn. -- genus Chlamydosaurus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus containing two species of small New Zealand trees: weeping tree broom; endangered.
Syn. -- genus Chordospartium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; double + &unr_; image + -scope. ] (Astron.) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖adv. [ F. ] Back to back; as, to sit dos-à-dos in a dogcart; to dance dos-à-dos, or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖ n. A sofa, open carriage, or the like, so constructed that the occupants sit back to back. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. dosage. See Dose, v. ] 1. (Med.) The administration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. The process of adding some ingredient, as to wine, to give flavor, character, or strength. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. same as dose{ 1 }; as, 200 mg q.i.d. [ wns=1 ] [ PJC ]

4. the quantity of a medicine or other substance given to an animal, expressed as a quantity per body weight; as, use a dosage of 10 milligrams per kilogram [ PJC ]

5. the quantity of radiation given to or absorbed by an object; as, a maximum dosage of 1 mrad per day is allowed. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- dose. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose, fr. dido`nai to give; akin to L. dare to give. See Date point of time. ] 1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything unpleasant that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one; also used figuratively, as to give someone a dose of his own medicine, i. e. to retaliate in kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dosed p. pr. & vb. n. dosing. ] [ Cf. F. doser. See Dose, n. ] 1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need. [ 1913 Webster ]

A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, “secundum artem.” South [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To give anything nauseous to. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. dossel; cf. LL. dorsale. See Dorsal, and cf. Dorse, Dorsel. ] Same as Dorsal, n. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. for measuring doses of .
Syn. -- dosemeter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ NL. dosis dose + -meter. ] a device for measuring doses of radiation, especially ionizing radiation such as X-rays, gamma rays, or ionizing particles. [ PJC ]

n. a dosimeter cosisting of a radiation-sensitive material, such as film, worn in a small package on a person's clothing, to record the accumulated radiation exposure of the person over a period of time; -- used to monitor the exposure of individuals, such as workers in a nuclear power plant, to ionizing radiation. [ PJC ]

n. [ NL. dosis dose + -metry. ] (Med.) Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules. -- Do`si*met"ric a. -- Do*sim"e*trist n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Dose + -logy. ] Posology. [ R. ] Ogilvie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etym. uncertain. ] A place to sleep in; a bed; hence, sleep. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. to sleep in a convenient place. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Dosel, n. ] Same as Dorsal, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. dosserum, or F.dossier bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back, fr. L. dorsum back. See Dorsal, and cf. Dosel. ] [ Written also dorser and dorsel. ] 1. A pannier, or basket. [ 1913 Webster ]

To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hanging tapestry; a dorsal. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A cheap lodging house.

They [ street Arabs ] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy. W. Besant. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F., back of a thing, bulging bundle of papers, fr. dos back. ] A bundle containing the papers in reference to some matter. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. dosil faucet of a barrel, OF. dosil, duisil, spigot, LL. diciculus, ducillus, fr. L. ducere to lead, draw. See Duct, Duke. ] 1. (Surg.) A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Printing) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines. [ 1913 Webster ]

2d pers. sing. pres. of Do. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. Russian author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski; born 1821, died 1881.
Syn. -- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. adj. of or pertaining to Fyodor Dostoevski. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Endo- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, flesh. ] (Biol.) The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amœba; entoplasm; endoplasta. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + -scope. ] (Med.) An instrument for examining the interior of the body, consisting of a flexible tube with lenses and optical fibers permitting illumination of the interior site to be inspected, and visualization of the interior site from outside the body; it often has small surgical instruments attached to the end and manipulable from the outside, permitting biopsy or surgery. It is used as a non-invasive or minimally invasive tool for diagnosis or treatment, especially in organs having an external opening such as the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to endoscopy or an endoscope. [ PJC ]

n. (Med.) The art or process of examination or treatment by means of an endoscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + skeleton. ] (Anat.) The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endosmose + -meter. ] (Physics) An instrument for measuring the force or amount of endosmotic action. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or designed for, the measurement of endosmotic action.

{ } n. [ NL. endosmosis, fr. Gr. 'e`ndon within + &unr_; a thrusting, impulsion, fr. &unr_; to push: cf. F. endosmose. ] (Physics) The transmission of a fluid or gas from without inward in the phenomena, or by the process, of osmose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Endosmotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + Gr. &unr_; seed. ] (Bot.) The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Relating to, accompanied by, or containing, endosperm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Endo- + spore. ] (Bot.) The thin inner coat of certain spores. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. endosser. See Endorse. ] To put upon the back or outside of anything; -- the older spelling of endorse. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]