Dram

Definition of Dram

Pronunciation: drăm
n.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.
4.(Numis.) A Persian daric.
Fluid dram
See under Fluid.
v. i. & t.1.To drink drams; to ply with drams.
n.1.(Computers) same as dynamic RAM.

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