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ˈmillet-seed
a. The seed or grain of millet. Also attrib., as millet-seed papula, an isolated pimple as seen in miliary fever; millet-seed rash, miliary fever.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 66 Their egges..are likest of all thinges to Millet seede. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. i. 113 The Measles are Pustules like Millet-seed. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 350 Little Cray-fish, no bigger than Millet-seeds. 1822–34Good's Study Med (ed. 4) I. 176 An efflorescence on the surface [of the skin] sometimes in the form of minute red millet-seed papulæ. 1851Carpenter Man. Phys. (ed. 2) 429 Minute lobules..about the average size of a millet-seed. 1890Syd. Soc. Lex., Millet seed rash.
b. Petrol. Used attrib. to designate (grains of) sand of almost spherical shape as a result of abrasion produced by the wind.
1935T. Eastwood Northern Eng. (Brit. Regional Geol.) 7 Thick red sandstones (Penrith Sandstone)..betray their origin as desert sand by the presence of ‘millet-seed’ grains. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xiii. 169/2 In desert sands..the quartz grains are described as ‘millet-seed’ sands, a reference to the almost perfect, spherical shape. |