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De - Pt| English Dictionary: dram | by the DICT Development Group |
| 5 results for dram | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Dram \Dram\, n. [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. [?], prop., a handful, fr. [?] 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. (Numis.) A Persian daric. --Ezra ii. 69. {Fluid dram}, [or] {Fluid drachm}. See under {Fluid}. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Dram \Dram\, v. i. & t. To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] --Johnson. --Thackeray. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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DRAM {dynamic random access memory} | |
| From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
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Dram The Authorized Version understood the word 'adarkonim (1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 8:27), and the similar word darkomnim (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70), as equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revised Version rightly regards it as the Greek dareikos, a Persian gold coin (the daric) of the value of about 1 pound, 2s., which was first struck by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and was current in Western Asia long after the fall of the Persian empire. (See {DARIC}.) | |
