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One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass.

A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.

The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

To inclose, as in a frame.

To trammel; to entangle. Bp. Hacket.

short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram Shak.

Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.

In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.

One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.

To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.

One who writes in an affectedly pointed style. Epigrammatizers of our English prose style. Coleridge.

An epigrammatist. Jer. Taylor.

A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.

A sending out; emission. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Beyond the material world. "An extramundane being." Bp. Warburton.

Outside of the walls, as of a fortified or walled city.

The plant love-lies-bleeding. [Obs.] Prior.

A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra. Foramen of Monro (Anat.), the opening from each lateral into the third ventricle of the brain. -- Foramen of Winslow (Anat.), the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the peritoneum.

Having small opening, or foramina.

One of the foraminifera.