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dram
/dɹæm/
noun 7verb 2
Collocations
2ADJ.
wee
DRAM + NOUN
brandy, grains, uncle
Definitions
noun
1
A small unit of weight, variously:
2
A small unit of weight, variously:
3
A small unit of weight, variously:
Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔).
4
A small unit of weight, variously:
5
Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.
a dram of brandy
Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evildoing.
verb
1
To drink drams.
What I contend against is, this dramming, dramming, dramming, at all hours of the day. There are some men who take a glass at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and at four in the afternoon.
2
To ply with drams of drink.
The parents[…]are getting ready their daughter for sale[…]praying her, and imploring her, and dramming her, and coaxing her.
noun
1
The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
601
Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔).
Wiktionary02
a dram of brandy
Wiktionary03
Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evildoing.
Wiktionary04
What I contend against is, this dramming, dramming, dramming, at all hours of the day. There are some men who take a glass at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and at four in the afternoon.
Wiktionary05
The parents[…]are getting ready their daughter for sale[…]praying her, and imploring her, and dramming her, and coaxing her.
Wiktionary06
"Let's have a wee dram first," said uncle Fred, filling the glasses and putting them on the table, "and then we'll get going."
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