Millet
['mɪlɪt]
Definition
(noun.) small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica.
(noun.) French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875).
(noun.) any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine.
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Definition
(n.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.
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Definition
n. a grass yielding grain which is used for food.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a miller in your dreams, signifies your surroundings will grow more hopeful. For a woman to dream of a miller failing in an attempt to start his mill, foretells she will be disappointed in her lover's wealth, as she will think him in comfortable circumstances.
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Examples
- Grape juice mixed with millet ferments quickly and strongly, and the Romans learned to use this mixture for bread raising, kneading a very small amount of it through the dough. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Neolithic men cultivated and ate wheat, barley, and millet, but they knew nothing of oats or rye. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nice cutting is her function: she divides With spiritual edge the millet-seed, And makes intangible savings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Priscus mentions mead in the place of wine, millet for corn, and a drink either distilled[272] or brewed from barley. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Millet's recent celebrated painting represents a brutal, primitive type of a man leaning heavily on a hoe as ancient and woful in character as the man himself. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Feed the chicks four or five times a day, at first on hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine, giving them also a little milk, fine screenings, and millet seed. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Among these are kaffir corn, sorghum, alfalfa, clover, millet, cowpeas, soy-beans, sugar beets, oats and even weeds and thistles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The millets are among the best paying dry-farming crops. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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