dram Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains
    drachm; drachma.
  2. noun 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams
  3. noun the basic unit of money in Armenia

WordNet

Dram noun
Etymology
OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. , prop., a handful, fr. to grasp. Cf. Drachm, Drachma.
Definitions
  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.
Dram intransitive verb & transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To drink drams; to ply with drams. Low Johnson. Thackeray.

Webster 1913