Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small white or yellowish cystic mass filled with keratin that is just below the epidermis, most commonly on the eyelids or nose, or on the roof of the mouth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of grasses of the tribe Agrostideæ and the subtribe Stipeæ, characterized by an ovoid glume, rigid or hardened about the caryopsis, and an awn-less flowering glume.
- noun [lowercase] In pathology, an affection of the sebaceous glands, caused by retention of their secretion in the form of pearly or yellowish-white little globular bodies embedded in the skin and projecting slightly above its surface.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Magni domini habent casalia versus meridiem, de quibus afferunt eis milium et farinam contra hyemem, pauperes procurant sibi pro arietibus et pellibus commutando.
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Magni domini habent casalia versus meridiem, de quibus afferunt eis milium et farinam contra hyemem, pauperes procurant sibi pro arietibus et pellibus commutando.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Jamque nocturno itinere fessis omnibus Sulla pariter cum ortu solis castra metabatur, quum equites Mauri nuntiant Jugurtham circiter duum milium intervallo ante eos [601] consedisse.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Dein, postquam tempus visum, castris egreditur noctemque totam itinere facto consedit; idem proxima facit, dein tertia multo ante lucis adventum pervenit in locum tumulosum ab Capsa non amplius duum [496] milium intervallo; ibique quam occultissime potest, cum omnibus copiis opperitur.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Quae postquam Metello comperta sunt, quamquam inter Thalam flumenque proximum in spatio milium quinquaginta, loca arida atque vasta esse cognoverat, tamen spe patrandi belli, si ejus oppidi potitus foret, omnes asperitates supervadere ac naturam etiam vincere aggreditur.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Metelli primos suos praetergressum videt, praesidio quasi duum milium peditum montem occupat, qua Metellus descenderat, ne forte cedentibus adversariis receptui ac post munimento foret; dein repente signo dato hostes invadit.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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(_Synonyms: _ Grutum; Strophulus Albidus.) #What is milium?
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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No. It can scarcely be confounded with milium, as in this latter disease the lesion has no open outlet, no black point, and the contents cannot be squeezed out.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Κέγχρος, _milium_, millet, is far the best known of the three to Europeans.
The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1844
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A lewd audacious action cntcrpriz'di Into the fair, with women mixM, li Arm'd with a huge two-handed milium.
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"In pathology, an affection of the sebaceous glands, caused by retention of their secretion in the form of pearly or yellowish-white little globular bodies embedded in the skin and projecting slightly above its surface."
- From the Century Dictionary
July 19, 2010