Unit of currency, used in Ancient and Modern Greece.
A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
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Examples for "dram "
Examples for "dram "
1 She hadn't changed a dram in all the time he'd known her.
2 However, there was one woman who could match her dram for dram .
3 Worse than all these combined is the influence of the licensed dram -shop .
4 Phosphate of soda in one dram doses every three hours is good.
5 On the other hand, the dram had made him reckless and generously-minded.
1 Not an ounce of cunt, sirs; not sho much as a drachm . '
2 Were I a physician, I would prescribe nothing but recipe, CCCLXV drachm .
3 This was the last drachm required to turn the scale of her indecision.
4 If the pain continues, use this purge:-Takea drachm of spec.
5 They weighed each, when entire, full one ounce and one drachm .
The currency issued in Greece between 1832 and December 31, 2000.
1 Is there a short-cut that avoids this pain: bringing back the drachma ?
2 The drachma also advanced against both major European currencies and the dollar.
3 It's not just that the transition to the drachma would be terrible.
4 May my hand wither if that wine is worth half a drachma !
5 Going back to the drachma would kill the Greek economy, Samaras said.
6 Greece needs a currency devaluation, a new currency, a new drachma .
7 Which leaves us with the million - drachma question: What happened to Kronos?
8 But the drachma would be expected to fall quickly on foreign exchange markets.
9 If Greece withdraws from the euro it will go back to the drachma .
10 Logistically, security printing of drachma banknotes would not initially be necessary.
11 And, unless it returns to the drachma , borrowing is Greece's only way forward.
12 The lost drachma was simply put back in the woman's purse.
13 I searched my pockets for money, and found nothing but a golden drachma .
14 Still I am not angry when a drachma comes to me.
15 Would Grexit be a gradual, controlled process or a sudden return to the drachma ?
16 A cripple without legs having succeeded in seizing a drachma , the applause was frenetic.
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