milium1
(ˈmɪlɪəm)
In 4 mylium, 6 millium.
[a. L. milium millet.]
1. = millet1. Obs. exc. as mod.L. in Pharmacy. Also Bot. the name (Linnæus) of a graminaceous genus, ‘millet-grass’.
| 1388 Wyclif Isa. xxviii. 25 Barli, and mylium, and fetchis. 1535 Coverdale Ezek. iv. 10 Take vnto the..growell sede, milium and fitches. 1598 Hakluyt Voy. I. 104 They haue the seed of Millium in great abundance. |
b. milium solis: Graymill or Gromwell, Lithospermum officinale. (Cf. millensole.)
| [1597 Gerarde Herbal ii. clxxx. 487 Gromell is called..in shops and among the Italians Milium solis.] a 1648 Ld. Herbert in Life (1886) 44 Posset drinks of herbs, as milium solis, saxifragea, &c. |
2. Path. An affection of the sebaceous glands in which hard white or yellowish tubercles resembling millet-seeds are produced, immediately below and projecting from the cuticle. Cf. milia.
| 1856 Mayne Expos. Lex., Milium... Name for a white hard tubercle. 1876 tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 331 Colloid milium of the skin. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 764 Milium forms firm white or yellowish masses. |
b. Surgery. (See quot.)
| 1884 Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Milium Needle, a fine needle with curved hastate point used in skin grafting. |