"Dram" is used informally to mean a small amount of spirituous liquor, especially Scotch whisky. This term, or its corruption, rack, is applied to any spirituous liquor in the East. For all such affections, being spirituous, cause much commotion and disturbance. His description of the CSF was of a "spirituous lymph". Spirituous Liquor is sold through privately owned businesses in Ohio known as contract liquor agencies.