drachm

English Thesaurus

1. a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce (noun.quantity)

hypernym	:	united states liquid unit,
definition	:	a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System (noun.quantity)

part holonym	:	minim,
definition	:	a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram (noun.quantity)

part meronym	:	fluid ounce, fluidounce,
definition	:	a United States unit of capacity or volume equal to 1.804 cubic inches (noun.quantity)

2. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters (noun.quantity)

hypernym	:	british capacity unit, imperial capacity unit,
definition	:	a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet (noun.quantity)

part holonym	:	minim,
definition	:	a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters (noun.quantity)

part meronym	:	fluid ounce, fluidounce,
definition	:	a British imperial unit of capacity or volume (liquid or dry) equal to 8 fluid drams or 28.416 cubic centimeters (1.734 cubic inches) (noun.quantity)

3. a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains (noun.quantity)

hypernym	:	apothecaries' unit, apothecaries' weight,
definition	:	any weight unit used in pharmacy; an ounce is equal to 480 grains and a pound is equal to 12 ounces (noun.quantity)

part holonym	:	scruple,
definition	:	a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains (noun.quantity)

part meronym	:	apothecaries' ounce, ounce, troy ounce,
definition	:	a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound (noun.quantity)