Definitions for drachms

drachms drachm

Spelling: [dram]
IPA: /dræm/

Drachms is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 209 anagrams from letters in drachms (acdhmrs).

Definitions for drachms

noun

  1. a dram in apothecaries' and troy weights, and sometimes in avoirdupois weights.
  2. drachma.

Origin of drachms

learned spelling of dram

Examples for drachms

The alkaloid is then dissolved in absolute alcohol, and the solution thus formed is evaporated; one pound yields about one drachm.

When this solution has been filtered, add to it drachm of the aceto-nitr.

He had compounded an ounce of tincture of nux instead of a drachm!

One drachm of the acid if pure completely dissolves on being shaken with half a pint of warm water.

Or, mix sulphate of zinc, one drachm; rain-water, one half pint.

They weighed each, when entire, full one ounce and one drachm.

That is the stumbling-block—the lack of an ounce of determination and a drachm of courage.'

The best capture wouldn't be worth a drachm if we could not say, 'Hurrah!

Why, I've eaten a drachm a day of the stuff, or drunk its equivalent in the tincture.

Some persons take as a “sequitur” a drachm of Carbonate of Soda.

Word Value for drachms
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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