For this you will all be paid an extra drachm a day."

On October 1900, another issue was launched but that time for common usage, the values are in lepta and drachm.

The caliphate adapted the Sassanian drachm as their silver coin.

Seven obols a day - just over a drachm.

The central denomination to the Ancient Greek monetary system was the drachm.

In the 18th century, the "part" was renamed "drachm."

"Yet the seed of all of them was contained in a drachm of sticky fluid.

The word drachm(a) means "a handful", literally "a grasp".

Athenian coins, however, were struck on the "Attic" standard, with a drachm equaling 4.3 grams of silver.

But it would have doubled the value of the avoirdupois drachm (an existing unit, but by then only used for weighing silk).

Below the drachm was the dupondius (1/5) to the quartuncia (1/480).

The digraph can also be silent, as in Crichton, currach, drachm, yacht and traditionally in schism.

The third reverse is the type king on a prancing horse, as used by Antimachus II found on a single drachm.

Put two drachms into each bottle, with magnesia - one drachm, and fill up with simple syrup and a little rectified wine.

DRACHM, Greek silver coin.

There was a small bottle of laudanum upon the table, and I managed, by insisting upon helping him myself, to mix about half a drachm with the spirits.

The usage of these stamps was reserved to the postal parcels and to postal orders ("mandats") and were paid in "gold drachm".

Later, it became the capital of the Parthian kings, at which time it became their main mint, producing drachm, tetradrachm, and assorted bronze denominations.

"Yes - you put a clean piece of writing paper down on the deck, make a small pile of powder (a drachm or so) in the middle, and then fire it.

Known to the Romans as a drachm, the dirhem was a unit of weight used across North Africa, the Middle East, and Persia, with varying values.

In the United Kingdom, the 1963 Weights and Measures Act provided for the abolition of the minim, fluid scruple, and fluid drachm, all already obsolete.

The obol was further subdivided into tetartemorioi (singular tetartemorion) which represented 1/4 of an obol, or 1/24 of a drachm.

You remember how it goes-twenty grains one penny-weight, three penny-weights one scruple-I forget how many scruples one drachm, eight drachms one ounce, twelve ounces one pound.

The unit of volume is more correctly called a fluid dram, fluid drachm, fluidram or fluidrachm (abbreviated fl dr, ƒ 3, or fʒ).

The systems also have different units between the grain and ounce (apothecaries' has scruple and dram, troy has pennyweight, and avoirdupois has just dram, sometimes spelled drachm).

But you'll take a dram and a bit of fish.

"After a little time and a dram or two, it does not matter so much."

The current dram began to be used 22 November 1993.

A good book and a dram or two sounds like a better idea.

He would never have taken Dram for the sentimental sort.

Why would anyone with a dram of sense in their own kingdom think any different?

At present only the 10 dram coin is still in use.

In 2011 the sign has been placed on the 1000 dram bill.

Dram thought for a moment, wondering how best to say it.

For the time being, at least, there was still dim light in the dram.

A man could make a good career serving under Dram, if he lived long enough.

The original Dram had power over those who supplied him.

Dram, I want you up on the surface, leading the troops in person.

There couldn't have been more than a half a dram left.

Notes for 1000 and 5000 dram were put into circulation later.

Of this amount about 800 million drams was financed by the State.

If four drams could kill, fourteen should make death very sure.

Dram felt like making a sharp answer to that, but rose above it.

Then he poured a good dram into his own, thought about it for a moment, and added as much again.

He wrote many other drams on a variety of themes.

The House then filled with them when they all got a dram each."

We've always had drams, but the way it developed was like a natural progression.

He'd have a couple of swift drams before the encounter.

What makes an end of year dram for you?

The man now known as Dram sighed deeply and sat down.