[rahy] 
,| 1. | a widely cultivated cereal grass, Secale cereale, having one-nerved glumes and two- or three-flowered spikelets. |
| 2. | the seeds or grain of this plant, used for making flour and whiskey, and as a livestock feed. |
| 3. | rye bread. |
| 4. | a straight whiskey distilled from a mash containing 51 percent or more rye grain. |
| 5. | Northeastern U.S. and Canada. a blended whiskey. |
| 6. | made with rye grain or flour: rye rolls. |
[rahy] ,| a male Gypsy. |
[rahy] ,| a city in SE New York, on Long Island Sound. 15,083. |
| rye 1 (rī) n.
[Middle English, from Old English ryge.] |
| rye 2 (rī) n. A Gypsy man. [Romany rai, from Sanskrit rājā, king; see rajah.] |
Rye
=Rie, (Heb. kussemeth), found in Ex. 9:32; Isa. 28:25, in all of which the margins of the Authorized and of the Revised Versions have "spelt." This Hebrew word also occurs in Ezek. 4:9, where the Authorized Version has "fitches' (q.v.) and the Revised Version "spelt." This, there can be no doubt, was the Triticum spelta, a species of hard, rough-grained wheat.
Rye
town (parish), Rother district, administrative county of East Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, on a hill by the River Rother. The community's cobbled streets and timber-framed and Georgian houses attract many tourists. Originally a seaport, Rye was incorporated in 1289 and became a full member of the Cinque Ports (a confederation of English Channel ports) in about 1350. Edward III walled the town, but of the three original 14th-century entrance gates, only Land Gate remains, together with the earlier Ypres Tower (12th century). Buildings of special interest include the Mermaid Inn (1420) and the 18th-century house in which the novelist Henry James spent his later years. From the 15th century the port declined as silting proceeded (the sea is now 2 miles [3 km] away), and the town has grown little outside its medieval perimeter. Pop. (2001) 4,009.
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