Alternative form of -ery

(law) Abbreviation of railway.

A surname from Irish, anglicized from Ó Riaghain, Ó Riain (“descendant of Riaghan, Rían”). Riaghan/Rían is perhaps from rí (“king”) + -án (diminutive suffix), meaning “little king”.

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.

(cooking) A bread made partly or entirely with rye flour.

A female given name, a less common spelling of Ryan.

(biochemistry, physiology) A poisonous alkaloid which occurs in the stems of the tropical American shrub Ryania speciosa (family Flacourtiaceae) and has been used as an insecticide and in experimental studies of calcium release within cells.

plural of rye bread

An oblast of Russia. / A city, the administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia, 196 kilometres south of Moscow.

plural of ryanodine