[dram] 
noun, verb, drammed, dram⋅ming.| 1. | Measurements.
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| 2. | fluid dram. |
| 3. | a small drink of liquor. |
| 4. | a small quantity of anything. |
| 5. | Archaic. to drink drams; tipple. |
| 6. | Archaic. to ply with drink. |
| dram 1 (drām) n.
[Middle English dragme, a drachma, a unit of weight, from Old French, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma; see drachma.] |
| dram 2 (dräm) n. pl. dram See Table at currency. [Armenian, ultimately from Greek drakhmē; see drachma.] |
| DRAM (dē'rām') n. Dynamic RAM. |
dram (drām)
n.
Abbr. dr
A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System equal to 1/16 of an ounce or 27.34 grains (1.77 grams). Also called drachm.
A unit of apothecary weight equal to 1/8 of an ounce or 60 grains (3.89 grams).
Dram
The Authorized Version understood the word 'adarkonim (1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 8:27), and the similar word darkomnim (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70), as equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revised Version rightly regards it as the Greek dareikos, a Persian gold coin (the daric) of the value of about 1 pound, 2s., which was first struck by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and was current in Western Asia long after the fall of the Persian empire. (See DARIC.)
| DRAM dynamic random access memory |
dram
unit of weight in the apothecaries' and avoirdupois systems. An apothecaries' dram contains 3 scruples (3.888 grams) of 20 grains each and is equal to one-eighth apothecaries' ounce of 480 grains. The avoirdupois dram contains 27.344 grains (1.772 grams) and is equal to one-sixteenth avoirdupois ounce of 437 12 grains. The term also refers to the fluid dram, a measure of capacity equal to one-eighth fluid ounce.
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