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GITH, a sort of grain which the Greeks call Melanthion, and the Latins Nigella, because it is black. Isaiah1 says, that Gith is not threshed out with the common instruments of threshing, such as cart-wheels and pointed harrows, but with a flail or rod only.
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Isai. xxviii. 25, 27. [Hebrew] Gith. Μελάνθιον. By the English translators called Fitches. ↩
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