rye

4 definitions found

rye - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Rye \Rye\ (r[imac]), 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A disease in a hawk. --Ainsworth.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

rye - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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:
         rye, Secale cereale]
      3: whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt [syn: rye, rye   whiskey
         , rye whisky]

rye - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  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 - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  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