Rye : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Rye	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rye n the seed of the cereal grass 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 Synonym(s): rye, Secale cereale whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt Synonym(s): rye, rye whiskey, rye whisky
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rye \Rye\, n. [OE. rie, reie, AS. ryge; akin to Icel. rugr, Sw. r[86]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 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.