drachm

• “It should be put up in short drachm bottles and sold at twenty-five cents.”

  One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed

• “The drachm was a Grecian coin, worth about 12 1/2 cents [about 7d.] of our money.”

  Barnes New Testament Notes

• “Coins found in the rebels 'cache include, clockwise from top: a silver tetra-drachm showing the image of the Temple in Jerusalem surrounded by the name "Shimon"; a locally produced bronze coin with the image of the goddess Astarte; a gold aureus of the emperor Tiberius.”

  Artifact

• “So he bade him work the shears13 and cut it into bittocks and cast it into the crucible and blow up the fire with the bellows, till the copper became liquid, when he put hand to turband and took therefrom a folded paper and opening it, sprinkled thereout into the pot about half a drachm of somewhat like yellow”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “There found he also a mappa mundi figuring the earth and the seas and the different cities and countries and villages of the world; and he found a vast saloon full of hermetic powder, one drachm of which elixir would turn a thousand drachms of silver into fine gold; likewise a marvellous mirror, great and round, of mixed metals, which had been made for Solomon, son of”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Take one drachm of ebeny and nine oboli of burnt copper, rub them upon a whetstone, add three oboli of saffron; triturate all these things reduced to a fine powder, pour in an Attic hemina of sweet wine, and then place in the sun and cover up; when sufficiently digested, use it.”

  On Regimen In Acute Diseases

• “The sesamoides purges upwards when pounded in oxymel to the amount of a drachm and a half, and drunk; it is combined with the hellebores, to the amount of the third part, and thus it is less apt to produce suffocation.”

  On Regimen In Acute Diseases

• “Another: - Of the roasted flower of copper half a drachm, of myrrh two half-drachms, of saffron three drachms, of honey a small quantity, to be boiled with wine.”

  On Ulcers

• “Lord Mountclere without a drachm of feeling; pointing to”

  The Hand of Ethelberta

• “But I tell her, that I would not have a single drachm of those over-lively ones which I see she will plaij off upon Lord G.”

  Sir Charles Grandison

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