Miliary definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary MIL'IARY, a. [L.milium, millet.] 1. Resembling millet seeds; as a miliary eruption; miliary glands. The miliary glands are the sebaceous glands of the skin. 2. Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as a miliary fever. Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Latin miliarius of millet ... having or made up of many small projections or lesions < miliary tubercles > Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. 1 like a millet- ...
... Dictionary Miliaria Mil`i*a"ri*a, n. [NL. See Miliary.] (Med.) A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated ... red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.
... characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality [syn: sweating sickness, miliary fever] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Sweating Sweat"ing, a. & n ...