Definitions for DRAM

DRAM dram

Spelling: [dram]
IPA: /dræm/

Dram is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in DRAM (admr).

Definitions for DRAM

noun

  1. Measurements. a unit of apothecaries' weight, equal to 60 grains, or 1/8 (0.125) ounce (3.89 grams). 1/16 (0.0625) ounce, avoirdupois weight (27.34 grains; 1.77 grams). Abbreviation: dr., dr.
  2. fluid dram.
  3. a small drink of liquor.
  4. a small quantity of anything.

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to ply with drink.

verb (used without object)

  1. Archaic. to drink drams; tipple.

Origin of DRAM

1400-50; late Middle English dramme, assimilated variant of dragme Old French Late Latin dragma, Latin drachma drachma

Examples for DRAM

Three gentlemen being in a coffee-house, one called for a dram, because he was hot.

The Hakushu 12 was a little peaty and nutty, the kind of dram I want to unwind with after a fine restaurant meal.

Here Mr. Dempsey pantomimed the action of tossing off a dram.

Take four ounces of mutton suet, one ounce of bees-wax, one of sweet oil, and a dram each of powdered sugar-candy and gum-arabac.

That dram despatched, he poured him out another, and another.

Of the play they may say what they please, but not so of my costume and dram.

Had that animal Coupeau gone to the Arc de Triomphe to get his dram?

Corri had a brandy bottle and glass with him, and insisted I should take a dram.

Dissolve in the mixture three quarters of an ounce of yellow wax, and one dram of camphor, stirring the whole well together.

Mix two drams of the tincture of galls with one dram of lunar caustic, and for marking of linen, use it with a pen as common ink.

Word Value for DRAM
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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