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- Rye - n. - 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.
- Rye - n. - A disease in a hawk.
- Quass - n. - A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians.
- Gin - n. - A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.
- Rye - n. - 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.
- Ergotism - n. - A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.
- Ray grass - - A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); -- called also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass.
- Tiller - v. i. - To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
- Spur - n. - Ergotized rye or other grain.
- Darnel - n. - Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.
- Straw - n. - The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
- Ergot - n. - A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.
- Maslin - a. - Composed of different sorts; as, maslin bread, which is made of rye mixed with a little wheat.