DRAMMING

Etymology

Noun

dramming (countable and uncountable, plural drammings)

The practice of drinking drams.

Source: Wiktionary


Dram"ming, n.

Definition: The practice of drinking drams.

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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