dram

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

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is 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 called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid called?
• What is to drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] Johnson. Thackeray called?