ryder
-a clause added to a document; a rider. see rider.
-a gold coin of zealand [netherlands] equal to 14 florins, about $ 5.60.

rye
-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.

rynd
-a piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.

ryot
-a peasant or cultivator of the soil.

rypophagous
-eating, or subsisting on, filth.

rys
-a branch.

rysh
-rush, a plant.

rysimeter
-see rhysimeter.

ryth
-a ford.

rytina
-a genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species (r. stelleri);
-- called also steller's sea cow.