A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
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Examples for "drachma"
Examples for "drachma"
1Is there a short-cut that avoids this pain: bringing back the drachma?
2The drachma also advanced against both major European currencies and the dollar.
3It's not just that the transition to the drachma would be terrible.
4May my hand wither if that wine is worth half a drachma!
5Going back to the drachma would kill the Greek economy, Samaras said.
1Not an ounce of cunt, sirs; not sho much as a drachm.'
2Were I a physician, I would prescribe nothing but recipe, CCCLXV drachm.
3This was the last drachm required to turn the scale of her indecision.
4If the pain continues, use this purge:-Takea drachm of spec.
5They weighed each, when entire, full one ounce and one drachm.
1She hadn't changed a dram in all the time he'd known her.
2However, there was one woman who could match her dram for dram.
3Worse than all these combined is the influence of the licensed dram-shop.
4Phosphate of soda in one dram doses every three hours is good.
5On the other hand, the dram had made him reckless and generously-minded.
6The least dram of success would intoxicate and make him fool hardy.
7A mere dram. He poured the mere dram and his guest drank.
8The minute he opened his eyes he went for his morning dram.
9Hunger is satisfied by any nutritious food: the dram-drinker's thirst demands alcohol.
10This is a pleasant dram, and ready for punch all the year.
11A touchhole in the pot needed charging with a dram of firepowder.
12Mix two ounces of rose-water with one dram of sulphate of zinc.
13Johnson reports a case of poisoning from a dram of hydrochloric acid.
14Neuralgia, Menthol Liniment for.-Onedram of menthol liniment, two ounces of alcohol.
15He dropped into a City tavern, and refreshed himself with a dram.
16A great deal of time, you know, is wasted in these dram-shops.'
Dram per variant geogràfica