RYE

Rye. 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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rye. Rye, n. a coarse and black kind of grain

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Rye (?), n. [[OE. rie, reie, AS. ryge; akin to Icel. rugr, Sw. råg, Dan. rug, D. rogge, OHG. rocco, roggo, G. rocken, roggen, Lith. rugei, Russ. roje, and perh. to Gr. ὄρυζα rice. Cf. Rice.]] 1. 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. 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.