(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.
(n.) A minute quantity; a mite.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A Persian daric.
(v. i. & t.) To drink drams; to ply with drams.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’d think he’d just performed a one-man am-dram re-enactment of the Saving Private Ryan trailer.
(2) There were no significant differences between the groups in reduction in alcohol consumption, but patients in the DRAMS group showed a significantly greater reduction in a logarithmic measure of serum gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase than patients in the group receiving advice only.
(3) Aspects of dram shop imposed by 27 states and the District of Columbia are described, with emphasis on recent developments in California.
(4) Just down the road is the Talisker Whisky Distillery, while if you fancy a dram and a tune, the inn in Carbost has regular live music.
(5) At these two wooden one-bedroom cottages on the shores of Loch Tay, you can listen to the gently lapping water as the sun goes down or snuggle up with a dram in front of the woodburning stove.
(6) The visiting manager duly looked almost as disappointed as Taylor after Afobe’s rather am-dram tumble in the area under Colback’s challenge but, despite slight contact, the referee failed to buy the resultant penalty appeals.
(7) Differences among states in observed intervention were not related to dram shop law, but did appear to be related to prior level of intervention, type of establishment and business volume.
(8) The assay was performed by adding 50 microliters of cell concentrate of an overnight culture of TA98 resuspended in the appropriate buffer; 50 microliters of the same buffer or S9 mix; and 2 microliters of mutagen or dimethyl sulfoxide to a 1-dram vial or 13 x 150-mm test tube.
(9) Fahey teamed up with Marcella Detroit to mix industrial techno with bright funk (think Zola Jesus), while styled like Siouxsie Sioux starring in an am-dram Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
(10) The scheme was evaluated by randomly assigning 104 heavy or problem drinkers to three groups - a group participating in the DRAMS scheme (n = 34), a group given simple advice only (n = 32) and a non-intervention control group (n = 38).
(11) The procedure utilized virus-infected human fetal diploid cells or brain tissue smears in the bottom of 1-dram glass vials, antigen was detected through the use of intermediate HVH antisera produced in rabbits or hamsters and cross-absorbed with the HVH heterotype, and (125)I-labeled anti-species (rabbit or hamster) globulins produced in goats were used for detection of immune complexes.
(12) Monoclonal antibody, specific for the adenovirus group-reactive hexon antigen, was used for the detection of this agent by immunofluorescence 24 and 48 hours after inoculation of HEp-2 cell monolayers in 1-dram shell vials after low-speed centrifugation (700 X g, 30 minutes).
(13) He doesn't paint, draw or sculpt so people tend to call him a curator but what he does seems both more spirited and more human than that dusty word suggests (in the watery fantasy of Venice it is tempting to think of him as an inspired am-dram Prospero).
(14) Only 14 patients in the DRAMS group completed the full DRAMS procedure.
(15) Mating occurred readily in this strain, even when the adults were confined in 8-dram glass shell vials.
(16) Afterwards have a celebratory dram at Maxwell's erstwhile local, the Glenelg Inn ( glenelg-inn.com ).
(17) A monoclonal antibody was used to detect an early antigen of cytomegalovirus (CMV) by fluorescence 16 h after inoculation of MRC-5 monolayers in 1-dram (ca.
(18) Art, am-dram, film-making and comedy are catered for by societies.
(19) Recommendations include broadening the focus of dram shop liability to include the prevention of alcohol-related problems.
(20) Please don't make it one' Read more Demonstrators are furious over reports such as Transparency International Armenia’s, which claimed that the company spent 450 million-drams (about £600,000) on luxury cars.
Draughtsman
Definition:
(n.) One who draws pleadings or other writings.
(n.) One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind.
(n.) A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.
(n.) One who drinks drams; a tippler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the decades he has cemented his position as an important artistic figure and extended his talents to work as a photographer, draughtsman, printmaker and stage designer.
(2) The works will be displayed in the Queen's gallery of Buckingham Palace alongside an exhibition of drawings and prints by the 17th-century artist Giovanni Castiglione, regarded as the most innovative and technically brilliant draughtsman of his day.
(3) He was a Christ-like hobo in Whistle Down The Wind (1961), a draughtsman forced into a shotgun marriage in A Kind Of Loving (1962), a prissy, poetry-reading Englishman in Zorba The Greek (1964), a Bathsheba-adoring shepherd in John Schlesinger's underrated Far From The Madding Crowd (1967).
(4) First of all, amid the chaos Degas found endless repetition of standard movements and poses, providing plenty of opportunities for the relentless copyist, the champion draughtsman, to get some daring and implausible postures absolutely convincing and right, creating a series of interior landscapes accessible without having to go outdoors.
(5) Over the next few years he acquired a reputation not only as a draughtsman of exceptional capabilities but also as an ingenious interior decorator.
(6) By now, he was a draughtsman participating in an early scientific project to codify the diversity of nature: henceforward, text would always be a behind-the-scenes presence in his work.
(7) For example, the estimates of one observer who was a well-trained professional draughtsman did not show this systematic error.
(8) Jane Campion , director The music Michael wrote for The Draughtsman's Contract had such clarity, voice and vision that I knew he was the person I needed.
(9) Raphael's drawing Head of a Young Apostle, which the Renaissance draughtsman created in about 1519-21, was also issued with an export licence after no British buyer could match the £29m New York billionaire Leon Black offered for it at auction.
(10) Anaerobic incubation gave large moist or mucoid colonies that were easy to recognise, but it suppressed the typical draughtsman colony of S pneumoniae.
(11) It is suggested that draughtsman colonies occur because of a relative lack of the coenzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (factor V), which is required as a reducing agent in aspartate and glutamate metabolism.
(12) He had worked at EMI in wartime as a jig and tool draughtsman.
(13) He was well educated, qualifying as a draughtsman before enlisting in the 34 th Battalion in 1916.
(14) Though a poor draughtsman, Johnson proved able to design well and quickly and could afford to build what he liked.
(15) The factor V supplement routinely used in our medium also inhibited the formation of draughtsman colonies.
(16) He grew up in New Jersey and dropped out of high school to take a job as a draughtsman when his parents divorced and money ran low.
(17) She wanted a different style from the music I'd written for The Draughtsman's Contract , and the three other films I'd scored for Peter Greenaway in the 1980s.
(18) This nutritional deficiency may lead to bacterial cell wall defect and hence to the autolysis which gives the typical draughtsman colony.
(19) Because Degas was so familiar, because I felt over-exposed to his talent and therefore somewhat inured to his charms, I acknowledged rather than appreciated the greatness of his work; he was the impressionist for people who didn't really like impressionists, the same prettiness but with line, structure and form, a brilliant draughtsman, yawn, a 19th-century classic.
(20) Most significantly, it was in Arles that Van Gogh developed as a draughtsman, producing some of his most exquisite works.