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A drachma.

ferent value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents.

See Drachma.

A two-drachma piece; an ancient Greek silver coin, worth nearly forty cents.

See Fluid dram, under Fluid. Pharm. of the U. S.

A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four drachms. The Attic tetradrachm was equal to 3s. 3d. sterling, or about 76 cents.

A Persian daric. Ezra ii. 69. Fluid dram, or Fluid drachm. See under Fluid.

l, anything inanimate; as, to be master of one's time. Shak. Master of a hundred thousand drachms. Addison. We are masters of the sea. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.

The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.

A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value.

Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma. [R.] Arbuthnot.

separate powders, one of which contains forty grains of sodium bicarbonate mixed with two drachms of RochellRochelle powders. -- Seidlitz water, a natural water from Seidlitz, containing magnesium, sodium, calcium, and potassium sulphates, with calcium carbonate and a little magnesium chloride. It is used as an aperie…

ater best known at Athens being worth about £1 2s., or about $5.35. The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180. Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents. Jowett (T…