The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miliary \Mil"ia*ry\ (?; 277), a. [L. miliarius, fr. milium millet: cf. F. miliaire.]
Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.
(Med.) Accompanied with an eruption like millet seeds; as, a miliary fever.
(Zo["o]l.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini.
Miliary \Mil"ia*ry\, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the small tubercles of Echini.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to millet seeds. 2 (context medicine English) Having small lesions that are the shape and size of millet seeds. 3 Small and numerous. n. (context zoology English) One of the small tubercles of Echinus sea urchins.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "miliary".
I have never lost one, nor to the best of my recollection has one been greatly endangered, by the puerperal, miliary, low nervous, putrid malignant, or milk fever.
Provincial Assembly of Virginia, had been a member of the Continental Congress, and had, after the close of his miliary career, presided over the convention that framed the Constitution.
Add in the respiratory infections, the bouquet of asthmas, cystic fibrosis, miliary TB.
Irish married woman of forty, the subject of rheumatic fever, who occasionally had a blue serous discharge or perspiration that literally flowed from her legs and body, and accompanied by a miliary eruption.