† ˈmilly Obs.
Also 7 millya, millio, mil(l)ia.
[a. Pg. milho millet1: cf. mealie.]
A kind of millet.
| a 1600 May in Hakluyt's Voy. III. 571 In this pangaia we had certaine corne called millio. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 650 The Guineans..stamp their milia as we do spice,..and grinde it..till it be dowe, which they temper with fresh water and salt, and make rolls thereof. 1629 Capt. J. Smith Trav. & Adv. Wks. (Arb.) 856 Their bread is made of..Cuskus a small white seed like Millya in Biskay. 1665 Golden Coast 14 Their Corn is of two sorts, 1 Milly. 2 Mais. 1 Milly, and that hath long Ears, and is a seed of colour like Hemp-seed, and long like Canary-seed, having no shells, but growing in a little husk, which is very white within. Ibid. 76 Their bread is of Millia, or Mais, baked on a warme Harth. |