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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rye \Rye\ (r[imac]), noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
rye
noun
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: whiskey 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 U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Rye, NY -- U.S. city in New York Population (2000): 14955 Housing Units (2000): 5559 Land area (2000): 5.777305 sq. miles (14.963150 sq. km) Water area (2000): 14.242459 sq. miles (36.887797 sq. km) Total area (2000): 20.019764 sq. miles (51.850947 sq. km) FIPS code: 64309 Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36 Location: 40.970451 N, 73.688435 W ZIP Codes (1990): 10580 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Rye, NY Rye
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Rye, CO -- U.S. town in Colorado Population (2000): 202 Housing Units (2000): 119 Land area (2000): 0.100175 sq. miles (0.259451 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.100175 sq. miles (0.259451 sq. km) FIPS code: 66895 Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08 Location: 37.921876 N, 104.929999 W ZIP Codes (1990): 81069 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Rye, CO Rye
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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