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A minute quantity; a mite. Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as mush the forcible hindrance of evildoing. Milton.

commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage. A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon. Milton.

Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid. The emperor . . . performed his part with much dramatic effect. Motley.

In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.

The actors in a drama or play.

The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

Capable of being dramatized.

Act of dramatizing.

To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. They dramatized tyranny for public execration. Motley.

Relating to dramaturgy.

One versed in dramaturgy. Carlyle.

The art of dramatic composition and representation.

The practice of drinking drams.

One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass.

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

One of a group of crystalline bodies produced by the action of ammonia on certain aldehydes.

One of a series of artificial, organic bases, usually produced as thick viscous liquids by the action of ammonia on ethylene oxide. They have the properties both of alcohol and amines.

Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat de…

Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action. -- Mel`o*dra*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who acts in, or writes, melodramas.