Definition of dram

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Dram (n.) 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..

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Dramatist :: Dramatist (n.) The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
Monodrame :: Monodrame (n.) A drama acted, or intended to be acted, by a single person..
Hydramide :: Hydramide (n.) One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.
Dramatize :: Dramatize (v. t.) To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode..
Dramatized :: Dramatized (imp. & p. p.) of Dramatiz.
Perform :: Perform (v. t.) To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.
Scena :: Scena (n.) An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria..
Melodrame :: Melodrame (n.) Melodrama.
Player :: Player (n.) A dramatic actor.
Teaspoonful :: Teaspoonful (n.) As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.
Dramshop :: Dramshop (n.) A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.
Sensational :: Sensational (a.) Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report..
Melodrama :: Melodrama (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's Fidelio..
Operetta :: Operetta (n.) A short, light, musical drama..
Representation :: Representation (n.) A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet..
Dram :: Dram (n.) A Persian daric.
Odeon :: Odeon (n.) A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances..
Intermede :: Intermede (n.) A short musical dramatic piece, of a light and pleasing, sometimes a burlesque, character; an interlude introduced between the acts of a play or an opera..
Sock :: Sock (n.) The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin..
Drama :: Drama (n.) Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.
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