DRAM
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Dram (drăm), n. [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. drachmh`, prop., a handful, fr. dra`ssesqai 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.
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2. A minute quantity; a mite.
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Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing.
Milton.
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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.
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4. (Numis.) A Persian daric. Ezra ii. 69.
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Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.
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Dram, v. i. & t. To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] Johnson. Thackeray.
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DRAM, D-RAM n. (Computers) same as dynamic RAM. [acron.]
Syn. -- dynamic RAM.
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