The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dram \Dram\, v. i. & t.
To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] --Johnson.
--Thackeray.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
DRAM \DRAM\, D-RAM \D-RAM\n. (Computers)
same as dynamic RAM. [acron.]
Syn: dynamic RAM.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "dram":
ace, atom, beverage, bit, bumper, carat, centigram, crumb, dab,
dash, decagram, decigram, dole, dollop, dose, dot, draft,
dram avoirdupois, drench, dribble, driblet, drink, drop, dwarf,
dyne, farthing, finger, fleck, flyspeck, force, fragment, gargle,
gobbet, grain, gram, granule, groat, gulp, guzzle, hair, handful,
hoot, hundredweight, iota, jigger, jolt, jot, kilo, kilogram, lap,
libation, little, little bit, lota, mass, megaton, milligram,
minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, mole, molecule, mote, nip,
nutshell, ounce, ounce avoirdupois, ounce troy, particle, pebble,
peg, pennyweight, pinch, pittance, point, portion, potation,
potion, pound, pound avoirdupois, pound troy, poundal, pull, quaff,
quick one, round, round of drinks, scruple, shot, shred, sip, slug,
slurp, smidgen, smitch, snack, snifter, snort, speck, splash,
spoonful, spot, stone, suck, sup, swig, swill, thimbleful,
tiny bit, tittle, ton, tot, trifling amount, trivia,
units of weight, weight, wet, whit
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
DRAM
Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
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.)