Miliary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having the appearance of millet seeds.
  • adj. Pathology Characterized by the presence of small skin lesions that have the size and appearance of millet seeds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to millet seeds
  • adj. Having small lesions that are the shape and size of millet seeds
  • n. One of the small tubercles of Echinus sea urchins.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Like millet seeds.
  • adj. Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds.
  • adj. Small and numerous.
  • n. One of the small tubercles of Echini.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Resembling millet-seeds, especially in size (about one or two millimeters in diameter); accompanied by formations of this size: as, miliary glands; miliary tuberculosis; miliary fever. See gland, tuberculosis, fever.
  • n. In the Echinoidea, one of the very small tubercles on the surface of the test which serve as bases for the lesser spines.
  • Word Usage
    "I have had nothing lately to tell you but illnesses and distempers: there is what they call a miliary fever raging, which has taken off a great many people, It was scarce known till within these seven or eight years, but apparently increases every spring and autumn."
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