drachm

¹ American  

[dram] / dræm /

noun

British.

1. a dram in apothecaries' and troy weights, and sometimes in avoirdupois weights.

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drachm ² American  

[dram] / dræm /

noun

1. drachma.

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drachm British  

/ dræm /

noun

1. Also called: fluid dram.  one eighth of a fluid ounce

2. another name for dram

3. another name for drachma

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Etymology

Origin of drachm

Learned spelling of dram

Example Sentences

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drachm

The ancient symbols for ounce and drachm are nearly alike, and fatal over doses have resulted.

From Time Magazine Archive

The government also lengthens the yard* and lightens the pound to conform to international standards, and in five years it will also abolish pennyweight, scruple and drachm.

From Time Magazine Archive

I excite my paper with equal proportions of saturated solution of gallic acid and aceto-nitrate of silver, one or two drops of each to the drachm of distilled water.

From Notes and Queries, Number 229, March 18, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various

Should any sores form on the skin, or should they arise from the opening of purulent deposits, dress them with the following ointment— Acetate of copper   ½ a drachm.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon

In various species the ratio is various, for one stone of a drachm weight draws more than another of twenty pounds.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert