DRAM

Ezr 2:69, a gold coin of Persia, worth about five dollars.

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Dram. Dram
The Authorized Version understood the word ‘adarkonim (1 Chr. 29:7; Ezra 8:27), and the similar word darkomnim (Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:70), as equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revised Version rightly regards it as the Greek dareikos, a Persian gold coin (the daric) of the value of about 1 pound, 2s., which was first struck by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and was current in Western Asia long after the fall of the Persian empire. (See DARIC.)

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DRAM. → Also called DRACHM → A Persian coin of differently-estimated value 1Ch 29:7; Ezr 2:69; 8:27; Ne 7:70-72

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dram. Dram, n. a glass of any spirit, the eighth of an ounce, a coin

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Dram (drăm), n. [[OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. δραχμή, prop., a handful, fr. δράσσεσθαι to grasp. Cf. Drachm, Drachma.]] 1. 1. A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce, or 27.34375 grains.
2. 2. A minute quantity; a mite.
Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing. Milton. 3. 3. As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. Shak.
4. 4. (Numis.) A Persian daric. Ezra ii. 69.
Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.