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 \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
   =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, 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

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