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DRAM, n. [contracted from drachma, which see.]

1. Among druggists and physicians, a weight of the eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains. In avoirdupois weight, the sixteenth part of an ounce.

2. A small quantity; as no dram of judgment.

3. As much spirituous liquor as is drank at once; as a dram of brandy. Drams are the slow poison of life.

4. Spirit; distilled liquor.

DRAM, v.i. To drink drams; to indulge in the use of ardent spirit. [ A low word expressing a low practice.]

1913 Definition
Dram (dram)
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Dram
[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.
  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. A Persian daric.
    Ezra ii. 69.

    Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.

  5. To drink drams] to ply with drams.
    [Low] Johnson. Thackeray.
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