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Rye vs Hye - What's the difference?

rye | hye |

As a noun rye

is a grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.

As an adjective hye is

obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As a verb hye is

obsolete spelling of lang=en.

rye

English

(wikipedia rye)

Noun

  • A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
  • The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
  • Rye bread.
  • (US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 159:
    • I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
  • Caraway
  • Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium .
  • A disease of hawks.
    • (Ainsworth)

    Derived terms

    * ryegrass

    Anagrams

    * English three-letter words

    hye

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
    • , passage=On th' other side in all mens open vew Duessa placed is, and on a tree Sans-foy his[*] shield is hangd with bloody hew: Both those[*] the lawrell girlonds to the victor dew. 45 VI A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye , And unto battaill bad them selves addresse: Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye, And burning blades about their heads do blesse, The instruments of wrath and heavinesse: 50 With greedy force each other doth assayle, And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle; The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1661, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 357, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, whereof the hye street goes from est to west, having a righte goodely crosse in the middle of it, making a quadrivium, and goeth from north to south." }}

    Verb

    (hy)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=Massacre at Paris, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=NAVARRE. And now Navarre whilste that these broiles doe last, My opportunity may serve me fit, To steale from France, and hye me to my home. }}