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Miliary definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MIL'IARY, a. [L.milium, millet.]
1. Resembling millet seeds; as a miliary eruption; miliary glands. The miliary glands are the sebaceous glands of the skin.
2. Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as a miliary fever.

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin miliarius of millet, from milium millet — more at millet Date: 1685 having or made up of many small projections or lesions <miliary tubercles>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 like a millet-seed in size or form. 2 (of a disease) having as a symptom a rash with lesions resembling millet-seed. Etymology: L miliarius f. milium millet

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Miliary Mil"ia*ry (?; 277), a. [L. miliarius, fr. milium millet: cf. F. miliaire.] 1. Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption. 2. (Med.) Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Miliary Mil"ia*ry, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the small tubercles of Echini.