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/dræm/ /dˈɪrˌæm/ Listen

noun

Dram n.

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.

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."

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.

(Numis.) A Persian daric.

Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.

D-RAM, DRAM n. (Computers) Same as dynamic RAM. (acron.)

Synonyms: dynamic RAM.

verb

Dram v. i. & v. t. To drink drams; to ply with drams. (Low)

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"Dram" Quotes from Famous Books

... or jug was first presented to the bridegroom. He applied the mouth of the bottle to his lips, and took a dram of raw whiskey. He then handed it to his next of kin, and so the bottle passed through the whole company. It is to be supposed that the young women did not burn their throats with very copious ...

— David Crockett: His Life and Adventures • John S. C. Abbott

... she took it as final, as a thing complete in itself, a thing most beautiful, most touching, most honourable to giver and recipient. It revived all her warmth of feeling, but this time without a bitter lees to the dram. And she was immensely the better for it. She felt in charity with all the world, her attitude to James was one of clear sight. Oh, now she understood him through and through. She would await the fulness of time; sufficient for ...

— Love and Lucy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... Rochecliffe, "but care not for them—a dram of brandy will correct it all. Mr. Baxter was," he was about to say "an ass," but checked himself, and only filled up the sentence with "a good man, I dare say, but ...

— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott

... mistrysted sair, he said, But let me into fire and bed; Let me in, for auld lang syne, And give me a dram of the ...

— New Poems • Robert Louis Stevenson

... maddened by a course of dram-drinking, blinded by an infatuation that itself constituted insanity, was hardly to be considered an accountable being. It may be that under the mass of guilt and impurity with which his whole being was loaded, there glimmered ...

— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville

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