rye-grass 
esteemed as highly in England as timothy-grass is in the 
United States. 
Rye House plot. See plot 1 . 
rye-moth (ri'moth), . A European insect 
whose larva feeds on stems of rye. It is referred 
to by Curtis as Pyralis secalis, but is probably 
Orobena frunifntalis. 
rye-straw (ri'stra), . A wisp of the straw of 
rye; hence, figuratively, a weak, insignificant 
person. 
Thou wonldst inStruct thy master at this play ; 
Thlnk'st thou this Rye-straw can ore-rule myarme? 
Heywood, Four Prentises of London (Works, II. 203). 
rye-wolf (ri'wulf), n. [Tr. G. roggeiwolf.] A 
malignant spirit supposed by the German peas- 
antry to infest rye-fields. Dyer, Folk-lore of 
Plants. 
rye-worm (ri'werm), . A European insect, 
the larva of the dipteran Oscinis pumilionis, 
which feeds on the stems of rye. 
ryftet, n. A Middle English form of rift 1 . 
rygbanet, n. A Middle English form of ridge- 
bone. 
Rygchopsalia (rig-kop-sa'li-a), . The corrupt 
original form of Rhynchopsalia. See lihynchops. 
rygntt, , > an( i " -^ Middle English form of 
right. 
ryghtwyst, A Middle English form of right- 
eous. 
ryke 1 (rik), v. i. [A var. of reach 1 .'] To reach. 
[Scotch.] 
Let me ryke up to dight that tear, 
And go wi' me and be ray dear. 
Burn*, Jolly Beggars. 
ryke 2 t, A Middle English variant of riche 1 . 
rymet, An obsolete form of rime 1 . 
rymourt, . An obsolete form of rimer 1 . 
Rynchsea, Eynchea, Rynchoea, . See Rhyn- 
cnsea. 
ryncho-. For words so beginning, see rJiyneho-. 
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Ryncops, . See Rhychoj>s. 
rynd(rind), w. [Cf. E. rhi(l-s/iiinlli. amill-rynd; 
perhaps uit. < AS. hrinduii (= Icel. lirinda), 
push, thrust, or hrinan, touch, strike: see 
rine'*.] In a burstone mill, the iron which 
supports the upper stone, and upon which it is 
nicely balanced or trammed. At the middle of the 
rynd is a bearing called the cockeye, which is adapted to 
rest upon the pointed upper end of the mill-spindle, called 
the cockhead. See tnttt' and miU-spiiulle. Also spelled 
rind. 
form of Rhynchota." Compare Rhyngota. 
rynnet, '' A Middle English form of run 1 . 
rynt, r. See aroint. 
ryot (ri'ot), n. [Also riot, rayat; < Hind, raiytit, 
prop, rd'iyat, < Ar. ra'iya, a subject, tenant, a 
peasant, cultivator. Cf. raya 1 .] In India, a 
peasant; a tenant of the soil ; a cultivator; es- 
pecially, one holding laud as a cultivator or 
husbandman. 
He was not one of our men, but a common ryot, clad 
simply in a dhoti or waist-cloth, and a rather dirty turban. 
F. M. Craw/ord, Mr. Isaacs, x.. 
In Bengal there are no great land-owners, but numerous 
ryots, or cultivators who nave fixity of tenure and rent. 
BritM Quarterly Bet., LXXXIJI. 271. 
It is suggested that Government might by degrees un- 
dertake the advances required by the ryoti, which they 
now raise under the disastrous village usurer's loan sys- 
tem, which, far from really helping them, only lands them 
deeper and deeper in the mire of debt each year. 
A. 0. F. Eliot Jama, Indian Industries, i. 
ryotwar, ryotwari (ri'ot-war, -wa-ri), . [Also 
ryotwary, rayatwari; < Hind, raiyatwdri, < rui- 
yat,&ryot: see ryot.} The stipulated arrange- 
ment in regard to land-revenue or -rent made 
annually in parts of India, especially in the 
Madras presidency, by the government officials 
Kyzaena 
with the ryots or actual cultivators of the soil, 
and not with the village communities, or any 
landlord or middleman. 
Its [the United States land system's] nearest surviving 
relative in Europe is the metayage of France; but it is more 
like the zemeendaree and ryotwar of Britishized Indiu 
than any land system now in existence. 
Jf. A. Rev., CXLJI. 54. 
rype 1 1, " and r. A Middle English form of n>- ' . 
rype- (rip), . [< Dan. rype, a ptarmigan.] A 
ptarmigan. See dalripa. , 
The rype must be regarded as the most important of 
Norwegian game birds, on account of its numbers no less 
than of its flavour. Encyc. Brit., XVII. MI. 
rypeck (ri'pek), n. [Also ripccl; rcpeck, rypeg; 
origin obscure.] A polo used to moor a punt 
while fishing, or in some similar way. [Local, 
Eng.] 
He ordered the fishermen to take up the ryptcto, and he 
floated away down stream. // Kingdey, Kaveushoc, Ixiv. 
It is the name for a long pole shod with an iron point. 
Thames fishermen drive two of these into the bed of the 
river and attach their punts to them. ... A single pole 
is sometimes called a rypeck, but the custom among fish- 
ermen in this part of the world [Halliford-on-Thamesl is to 
speak of " a rypecki." N. and Q., 7th er., II. 168. 
Rypo-. For words so beginning, see Rhypo-. 
Rypticus, . See Rhypticus. 
ryschet, A Middle English form of msfcl. 
ryset. A Middle English form of rise 1 , rise 2 . 
rysht, . A Middle English form of rusA 1 . 
rytht, . An obsolete form of rithe 1 . 
rythmt, v. i. An obsolete spelling of rJiytlnn 
and of rime 1 . 
rythmert, An obsolete spelling of rimer 1 . 
ryvet. A Middle English form of rive 1 , rive?, 
rife 1 . 
ryvert, A Middle English form of river 1 , 
rircr'l. 
Ryzaena, ". See Rhyzsena. 
