Thesaurus: dram

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1. 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.
2. n. A minute quantity; a mite.
3. n. 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. n. A Persian daric.
5. v. i. & t. To drink drams; to ply with drams.
6. n. a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains
7. n. 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams
8. n. the basic unit of money in Armenia
9. 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. To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] Johnson. Thackeray.
10. A Persian daric. Ezra ii. 69. Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. Seeunder Fluid.
11. n:100 n. a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains n. 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams n. the basic unit of money in Armenia