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(archaic, also figurative) A dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat.

(veterinary medicine) A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.

To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.

(veterinary medicine) To administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force.

To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic), to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.

(obsolete) To drown (someone).

(obsolete, figurative) To overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.

(obsolete) To be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.

An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting.

An amount of water or some other liquid that will make someone or something completely wet.