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DRAMMED
Verb
drammed
simple past tense and past participle of dram
Source: Wiktionary
DRAM
Dram, n. Etym: [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. 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.)
Definition: A Persian daric. Ezra ii. 69. Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.
Dram, v. i. & t.
Definition: To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] Johnson. Thackeray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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