DRAM

Dram

The dram was originally both a coin and a weight in ancient Greece. It refers to a unit of mass in the avoirdupois system, and both a unit of mass and a unit of volume in the apothecaries' system. The unit of volume is more correctly called a fluid dram, fluid drachm, fluidram or fluidrachm .

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dram

Noun

  1. A unit of weight avoirdupois,
    1. (UK & US) 1/16 ounce avoirdupois.
    2. (UK & US) 1.77 gram
  2. A minute quantity; a mite.
  3. A small quantity of a drink, especially an alcoholic drink.
    a dram of brandy
    a dram of poison
  4. A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.
  5. A Persian daric.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.

Verb

  1. To drink drams.
  2. To ply with drams of drink.


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