6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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]:
Dram \Dram\, v. i. & t.
To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] --Johnson.
--Thackeray.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dram
n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce
or to 60 grains [syn: {drachm}, {drachma}]
2: 1/16 ounce
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
DRAM
{dynamic random access memory}
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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}.)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
DRAM
Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)
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