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Synonyms of dram

jigger, shot, sip, tot, crumb, dab, dash, dot, drop, fragment, grain, iota

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dram

[dram] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, drammed, dram·ming.

–noun

Measurements.

a.	a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or ¹/₈ ounce (3.89 grams).

b.	¹/₁₆ ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr

2.	fluid dram.

3.	a small drink of liquor.

4.	a small quantity of anything.

–verb (used without object)

5.	Archaic. to drink drams; tipple.

–verb (used with object)

6.	Archaic. to ply with drink.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME dramme, assimilated var. of dragme < OF < LL dragma, L drachma drachma

]

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dram¹ (drām) Pronunciation Key
n.

Abbr. dr.
1. A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System equal to ¹/₁₆ of an ounce or 27.34 grains (1.77 grams).
2. A unit of apothecary weight equal to ¹/₈ of an ounce or 60 grains (3.89 grams). See Table at measurement.
3. A small draft: took a dram of brandy.
4. A small amount; a bit: not a dram of compassion.
1. A small draft: took a dram of brandy.
2. A small amount; a bit: not a dram of compassion.

[Middle English dragme, a drachma, a unit of weight, from Old French, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma; see drachma.]

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dram² (dräm) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. dram
See Table at currency.

[Armenian, ultimately from Greek drakhmē; see drachma.]

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DRAM (dē'rām') Pronunciation Key
n. Dynamic RAM.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
dram

c.1373, from Anglo-L. dragma, from L.L. dragma, from L. drachma "drachma," from Gk. drakhma "measure of weight," also, "silver coin," lit. "handful" (of six obols, the least valuable coins in ancient Greece), akin to drassesthai "to grasp." The fluid dram is one-eighth of a fluid ounce, hence "a small drink of liquor" (1713).

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dram
noun
1.	a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains
2.	1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams
3.	the basic unit of money in Armenia

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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).

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DRAM
dynamic random-access memory

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Dram

Dram\, n. [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. ?, prop., a handful, fr. ? to grasp. Cf. Drachm, Drachma.]

1. A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.

2. A minute quantity; a mite.

Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing. --Milton.

3. As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. --Shak.

4. (Numis.) A Persian daric. --Ezra ii. 69.

Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Dram

Dram\, v. i. & t. To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] --Johnson. --Thackeray.

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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.)

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DRAM
dynamic random access memory

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