• IPA: /dɹæm/

dram (plural drams)

1. (units of measurement) A small unit of weight, variously:
   1. One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (approximately 1.77 g).
   2. (pharmacy) Alternative form of drachm.
   3. (now uncommon) Synonym of dirhem#English|dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).
      • 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, s.v. "Weights and Measures":

        Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔).

   4. (obsolete) Synonym of drachma#English|drachma: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).
2. Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.

   a dram of brandy

   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Vnlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], OCLC 879551664 ↗:

     Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evildoing.

3. (historical) A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.
4. (obsolete) Synonym of drachma#English|drachma: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma; other similar coins.
   • The Bible (King James Version), Ezra 2:69

     They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams [i.e., the Persian daric] of gold, and five thousand pound of silver […]

• (small amount of something) mite, smidge, smidgeon, bit, pinch
• (small amount of alcohol) nip, shot, slug, snifter, tot

• Portuguese: dracma

• Portuguese: dedo

• Portuguese: dedo

dram (drams, present participle dramming; past and past participle drammed)

1. (dated, intransitive) To drink drams.
2. (dated, transitive) To ply with drams of drink.
   • 1855, Thackeray, 'Newcomes xxviii. (1868) II. 335

     The parents. . are getting ready their daughter for sale . . praying her, and imploring her, and dramming her, and coaxing her.

dram (plural drams)

1. (numismatics) The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.

• Russian: драм

dram

1. (electronics) dynamic random access memory.

• SRAM (static random access memory)
• NVRAM
• RAM (random access memory)
• FRAM
• MRAM