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

whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt

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.

A disease in a hawk.

A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass ( Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.

A hardy grain crop, Secale cereale, grown in northern climates. It is the most frequent host to ergot ( CLAVICEPS), the toxic fungus. Its hybrid with wheat is triticale, another grain.

A hardy plant closely related to wheat; also, its grain or seed; whisky made from rye grain.

A genus of grasses allied to wheat and barley, one species of which is cultivated as a grain.

A kind of grain.

The grain or seeds produced by a cereal grass nearly allied to wheat; also, the plant. See illus. on preceding page.

An esculent grain, allied to that of barley; a disease in a hawk.

A cereal of a quality inferior to wheat, but more hardy, and hence much cultivated in northern countries.

They have one hundred and thirty- seven acres of wheat, and thirteen of rye, all of a most excellent quality, decidedly the best that I have seen this year; not more than ten or fifteen acres at all injured. – History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

The poor folk rarely got it; they lived on rye or meal. – John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

How are you, rye? – Red Money by Fergus Hume

It occurs not only on rye but on wheat, and many of the wild grasses. – Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

There's good corn, and I know you'd enjoy seeing the rye and the pigs. – Seeing Things at Night by Heywood Broun

On the field where then the rye was in flower and the corncrakes were calling, now there were cows and hobbled horses. – The Darling and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov

What I never observed before, the rye- grass, or coarse bent, suffered more than the clover. – The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The distant plants of rye were free from rust. – Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

There were big fields of thick, heavy rye, and big fields again of oats and barley, not yet ripe. – Wanderers by Knut Hamsun

They were invited to join the officers at lunch, and ate with good appetites, having had no food but rye bread and beer since the previous midday. – A Hero of Liége by Herbert Strang

We've orders to watch Rye. – Dawn of All by Robert Hugh Benson

We started at dawn on the morning of the fourth day, after the old farmer had blessed us and sold us some stale rye- bread. – Greenmantle by John Buchan

A power of strangers- four or five- a French priest among them, had been on the island in the summer; the potatoes were bad, but the rye had begun well, till a dry week came and then it had turned into oats. – The Aran Islands by John M. Synge

So Mr. Henderson, not saying a word about Polly's accident, bought some rye flour, and several other things for the parsonage, chatting pleasantly all the time. – The Adventures of Joel Pepper by Margaret Sidney

In the first place, then, the French coffee is coffee, and not chickory, or rye, or beans, or peas. – The American Woman's Home by Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

" And Stephen'll want rye and soda, when he gets here," Irene said. – Murder in the Gunroom by Henry Beam Piper

Her son laughed, and helped himself to more baked beans and a fresh slice of rye- and- Indian. – Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells by William Dean Howells