† mellit Obs.
Also 7 mellet.
A disease incident to horses (see quots.).
| 1610 Markham Masterp. ii. lxix. 333 A Mellet is a dry scabbe that groweth vpon the heele [of a horse]. 1704 Dict. Rust. et Urban., Mellet [ed. 1726 Mellit], a dry Scab that grows upon the Heel of a Horse's Fore-feet. |