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noun

Drachm n.

A drachma.

Same as Dram.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drachm" Quotes from Famous Books

... has always been considered a chief thing in cookery. Mince a quarter of a pound of beef suet or marrow, the same weight of breadcrumbs, two drachms of parsley leaves, a drachm and a half of sweet marjoram or lemon thyme, and the same of grated lemon-peel and onion chopped as fine as possible, a little pepper and salt; pound thoroughly together with the yolk and white of two eggs, and secure it in the veal with a skewer, ...

— A Poetical Cook-Book • Maria J. Moss

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... far better than most men, what I owe to the labour of others. This money which I "draw" at the four quarters of the year, in a sense falls to me from heaven; but I know very well that every drachm is sweated from human pores. Not, thank goodness, with the declared tyranny of basest capitalism; I mean only that it is the product of human labour; perhaps wholesome, but none the less compulsory. Look far enough, and it means muscular toil, that swinking of the ruder man which supports ...

— The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft • George Gissing

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Words linked to "Drachm" : ounce, fluid ounce, drachma, United States liquid unit, apothecaries' unit, minim, scruple, British capacity unit, fluid dram, fluid drachm, apothecaries' weight, Imperial capacity unit, fluidram, troy ounce, fluidounce, dram, apothecaries' ounce