[rahy] Pronunciation Key, | 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. |
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
| rye 1
(rī) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English, from Old English ryge.] |
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| rye 2
(rī) Pronunciation Key
n. A Gypsy man. [Romany rai, from Sanskrit rājā, king; see rajah.] |
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rye
| rye | |
noun | |
| 1. | the seed of the cereal grass |
| 2. | hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement |
| 3. | whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt |
Rye Brook, NY (village, FIPS 64325) Location: 41.03041 N, 73.68659 W
Population (1990): 7765 (2835 housing units)
Area: 9.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 10573
Rye, CO (town, FIPS 66895) Location: 37.92175 N, 104.93099 W
Population (1990): 168 (110 housing units)
Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 81069
Rye, NH Zip code(s): 03870
Rye, NY (city, FIPS 64309) Location: 40.95287 N, 73.68370 W
Population (1990): 14936 (5616 housing units)
Area: 15.0 sq km (land), 36.9 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 10580
Rye
Rye\, n. [OE. rie, reie, AS. ryge; akin to Icel. rugr, Sw. r[*a]g, Dan. rug, D. rogge, OHG. rocco, roggo, G. rocken, roggen, Lith. rugei, Russ. roje, and perh. to Gr. 'o`ryza rice. Cf. Rice.]1. (Bot.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man. 2. A disease in a hawk. --Ainsworth. Rye grass, Italian rye grass, (Bot.) See under Grass. See also Ray grass, and Darnel. Wild rye (Bot.), any plant of the genus Elymus, tall grasses with much the appearance of rye.
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.
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