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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

dram
     n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce
          or to 60 grains [syn: drachm, drachma]
     2: 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Dram \Dram\, n. [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma, drachm,
   drachma, fr. Gr. ?, prop., a handful, fr. ? to grasp. Cf.
   Drachm, Drachma.]
   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. 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. 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. (Numis.) A Persian daric. --Ezra ii. 69.

   Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.
Dram \Dram\, v. i. & t.
   To drink drams; to ply with drams. [Low] --Johnson.
   --Thackeray.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

DRAM

   dynamic random access memory

Source: V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001 

DRAM
        Dynamic Random Access Memory (RAM, IC)

Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary 

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.)