Dole
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A part or portion of a meadow is so called; and the word has the general signification of share, portion, or the like; as “to dole out” anything among 80 many poor persons, meaning to deal or distribute in portions to them.
Holthouse.
In Seotch law. Criminal intent; evildesign. Bell, Dict. voc. “Crime.”