Hypertext Webster Gateway: "millet"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Millet \Mil"let\, n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. ?,
AS. mil.] (Bot.)
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Note:
{Arabian millet} is {Sorghum Halepense}.
{Egyptian or East Indian},
{millet} is {Penicillaria spicata}.
{Indian millet} is {Sorghum vulgare}. (See under {Indian}.)
{Italian millet} is {Setaria Italica}, a coarse, rank-growing
annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and
bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also {Hungarian grass}.
{Texas millet} is {Panicum Texanum}.
{Wild millet}, or
{Millet grass}, is {Milium effusum}, a tail grass growing in
woods.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
millet
n 1: any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage
grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria,
Sorghum, and Eleusine
2: extensively cultivated in Europe and Asia for its grain and
in United States sometimes for forage [syn: {broomcorn
millet}, {hog millet}, {Panicum miliaceum}]
3: French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) [syn: {Millet}, {Jean
Francois Millet}]
4: small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses
especially Setaria italica
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