[mil-it] 
| 1. | a cereal grass, Setaria italica, extensively cultivated in the East and in southern Europe for its small seed, or grain, used as food for humans and fowls, but in the U.S. grown chiefly for fodder. |
| 2. | any of various related or similar grasses cultivated as grain plants or forage plants. |
| 3. | the grain of any of these grasses. |
[mi-ley; for 2 also Fr. mee-le] | 1. | Francis Davis, 1846–1912, U.S. painter, illustrator, and journalist. |
| 2. | Jean Fran⋅çois [zhahn frahn-swa] , 1814–75, French painter. |
| mil·let (mĭl'ĭt) n.
[Middle English milet, from Old French, diminutive of mil, millet, from Latin milium; see melə- in Indo-European roots.] |
| Mil·let (mĭ-lā', mē-) French painter whose works, such as The Gleaners (1857) and Winter with Ravens (1862), portray peasant life and bucolic landscapes. He was a central figure of the Barbizon school. |
Millet
(Heb. dohan; only in Ezek. 4:9), a small grain, the produce of the Panicum miliaceum of botanists. It is universally cultivated in the East as one of the smaller corn-grasses. This seed is the cenchros of the Greeks. It is called in India warree, and by the Arabs dukhan, and is extensively used for food, being often mixed with other grain. In this country it is only used for feeding birds.
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