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   Dram (drăm), n. [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. δραχμή, prop., a handful, fr. δράσσεσθαι 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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