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9. |HE Hebrew word dokhan, or dochan, occurs in Ezekiel iv. 9, where the Lord says to the prophet, " Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof. " These are all plants which are used at the present day to furnish articles of food in Eastern countries. The millet is the produce of Panicum miliaceum. It is the cenchros of the Greeks. The grain is called warree in the East Indies. It belongs ...to the natural order Graminese or Grasses. Some suppose that Panicum italicum and Sorghum vulgare, the great millet or sowaree, may also be included in the Hebrew word. Both of these are grasses which furnish materials for bread. The common millet is imported from the Mediterranean into Britain. It is sometimes grown in MILLET. 179 England to supply birds' seed. The plant has an erect stalk or culm from two to four feet high, with large leaves and a nodding cluster of fruit. In India and Persia at the present day it is extensively used for food, and it is often mixed with other grain to form bread.
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