(mil′it) noun
1. A grass (Panicum miliaceum), or its seed, cultivated in the United States for forage, but in the Old World from earliest times, and still in some parts of Europe, as a cereal.
2. One of various other grasses, or their seed, as the foxtail or Italian millet (Setaria italica), pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum), etc. [<F, dim. of mil <L milium]

(mē·le′), Jean François,
1814–75, French artist.