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Dram \Dram\, v. i. & t.
To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] --Johnson.
--Thackeray.
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DRAM \DRAM\, D-RAM \D-RAM\n. (Computers)
same as {dynamic RAM}. [acron.]

Syn: dynamic RAM.
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Dram \Dram\ (dr[a^]m), 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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