Eighth of a fluid ounce

Usage examples of dram.

It was obvious to all that the man was dead, but Dram continued to hack at the body like an axman cutting wood, the body jumping and shuddering under the rain of blows.

The fine droplets hissed through the tree branches and spattered on the large, broad leaves with a rhythm like the bodhran drams of the old country.

North after Ovis Ammon--great rocks, you know, and leagues on end without a dram of water.

Dram roared orders, and a dozen disrupters opened fire at once, the joined energy blasts blowing the whole upper floor of the building apart in a shower of rubble and reddish clouds of pulverized bricks.

There were screams and shouts and explosions all around, and Dram grinned so widely his cheeks ached.

In every way that mattered, he was the Lord High Dram, Warrior Prime by popular acclaim, Widowmaker by destiny.

Which was the other reason why Dram was also known as the Widowmaker, though never to his face.

Dram, but the Widowmaker just stared calmly back, his hands nowhere near his weapons.

Aye, all the Lads, who push and who-pull, Ev'ry Master, ev'ry Pupil Single-ton and married Coople, Eye at Win-dow, Door and Looph'le, Ev'ry minim, dram and scruple Of their Praise is Thine, Octuple!

His louely words her seemd due recompenceOf all her passed paines: one louing howreFor many yeares of sorrow can dispence:A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre:She has forgot, how many a wofull stowreFor him she late endur'd.

Now, however, he did not care if all the fiends of Hell were dramming under Yanaidar.

Collins wished to be employ'd in some counting-house, but, whether they discover'd his dramming by his breath, or by his behaviour, tho' he had some recommendations, he met with no success in any application, and continu'd lodging and boarding at the same house with me, and at my expense.

Ignorant or insensible of royal distress, the rustic replied, that four drams of silver were the daily profit of his mill, and that he would not suspend his work unless the loss were repaid.

In the caliph's treasure were found a pearl as large as a pigeon's egg, a ruby weighing seventeen Egyptian drams, an emerald a palm and a half in length, and many vases of crystal and porcelain of China, (Renaudot, p.

Sometimes even the normal dose of four drams killed—but the Healers used it now and again to end the suffering of one they could not save.