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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (3)
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]
The 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]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.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
