[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. |
