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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dram \Dram\ (dr[a^]m), noun [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.
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.
{Fluid dram}, or {Fluid drachm}. See under {Fluid}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dram \Dram\, verb (used without an object) & t. To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] --Johnson. --Thackeray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
DRAM \DRAM\, D-RAM \D-RAM\n. (Computers) same as {dynamic RAM}. [acron.]
Syn: dynamic RAM. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dram
noun
1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains [syn: {drachm}, {drachma}]
2: 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams
3: the basic unit of money in Armenia
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
DRAM {dynamic random access memory}
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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}.)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)
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