Dram

n. [Contracted from drachma, q. v.]

1. (Apothecaries’ Weight.) A weight of the eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains.
2. (Avoirdupois Weight.) The sixteenth part of an ounce.
3. A minute quantity; a mite.

Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil-doing. Milton. 4. As much spirituous liquor as is drank at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, habitual intemperance; potation. Swift. Pope.