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What does "dram" mean?

Dram: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.(Numis.) A Persian daric. Ezra ii.
  3. 4.Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.
  4. 5.To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] Johnson. Thackeray.

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