4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
rye
n 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
[syn: {Secale cereale}]
3: distilled from rye or rye and malt [syn: {rye whiskey}, {rye
whisky}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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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