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rye |
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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