From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fluid \Flu"id\, n.
A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among
themselves.
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Note: Fluid is a generic term, including liquids and gases as
species. Water, air, and steam are fluids. By analogy,
the term was sometimes applied to electricity and
magnetism, as in phrases electric fluid, magnetic
fluid, though not strictly appropriate; such usage has
disappeared.
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{Fluid dram}, or {Fluid drachm}, a measure of capacity equal
to one eighth of a fluid ounce.
{Fluid ounce}.
(a) In the United States, a measure of capacity, in
apothecaries' or wine measure, equal to one sixteenth of
a pint or 29.57 cubic centimeters. This, for water, is
about 1.04158 ounces avoirdupois, or 455.6 grains.
(b) In England, a measure of capacity equal to the twentieth
part of an imperial pint. For water, this is the weight
of the avoirdupois ounce, or 437.5 grains.
{Fluids of the body}. (Physiol.) The circulating blood and
lymph, the chyle, the gastric, pancreatic, and intestinal
juices, the saliva, bile, urine, aqueous humor, and muscle
serum are the more important fluids of the body. The
tissues themselves contain a large amount of combined
water, so much, that an entire human body dried in vacuo
with a very moderate degree of heat gives about 66 per
cent of water.
{Burning fluid}, {Elastic fluid}, {Electric fluid}, {Magnetic
fluid}, etc. See under {Burning}, {Elastic}, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Dram \Dram\ (dr[a^]m), n. [OF. drame, F. drachme, L. drachma,
drachm, drachma, fr. Gr. drachmh`, prop., a handful, fr.
dra`ssesqai to grasp. Cf. {Drachm}, {Drachma}.]
1. 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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2. A minute quantity; a mite.
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Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be
preferred before many times as mush the forcible
hindrance of evildoing. --Milton.
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3. 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. --Shak.
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4. (Numis.) A Persian daric. --Ezra ii. 69.
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{Fluid dram}, or {Fluid drachm}. See under {Fluid}.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fluid dram
n 1: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal
to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters [syn: {fluidram},
{fluid dram}, {fluid drachm}, {drachm}]
2: a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal
to one eighth of a fluid ounce [syn: {fluidram}, {fluid
dram}, {fluid drachm}, {drachm}]
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