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.
MILLI-
Mil"li-. Etym: [From L. mille a thousand.] (Metric System, Elec.,
Mech., etc.)
Defn: A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampère.
MILLIAMPERE
Mil`li*am`père", n. Etym: [Milli- + ampère.] (Elec.)
Defn: The thousandth part of one ampère.
MILLIARD
Mil`liard", n. Etym: [F., from mille, mil, thousand, L. mille.]
Defn: A thousand millions; — called also billion. See Billion.
MILLIARY Mil"li*a*ry, a. Etym: [L. milliarius containing a thousand, fr. mille thousand: cf. F. milliaire milliary. See Mile.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a
mile or miles.
A milliary column, from which they used to compute the distance of
all the cities and places of note. Evelyn.
MILLIARY Mil"li*a*ry, n.; pl. Milliaries. Etym: [L. milliarium. See Milliary, a.]