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What Is A Dram?

June 26, 2012 By EricT_CulinaryLore

a Persian daric coin circa 490BC, a gold coin mentioned in the bible as a dram

The word dram is a contracted form of the word drachma from Late Latin and Old French. In middle English the word was dragme. It was originally used to describe a minute quantity of something. Druggists and apothecaries used the word dram as a unit of measurement meaning 1/8 of an ounce, or sixty grains. The U.S customary […]

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