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Definition of Ragee
1. Noun. East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient.
Group relationships: Eleusine, Genus Eleusine
Generic synonyms: Millet
Definition of Ragee
1. ragi [n -S] - See also: ragi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ragee
Literary usage of Ragee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Travels in India, 1583-1619 by William Foster (1921)
"The ragee sente for fishermen, whoe tooke more in halfe an hower then all the
companye could eate. Wee supped that night with the ragee, ..."
2. A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military and Social: From the First by Henry Beveridge (1862)
"... and in the south by that of ragee, appears to attract far more attention than
its ragee. intrinsic importance deserves, and hence furnishes perhaps ..."
3. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels edited by Robert Kerr (1813)
"According to this bad advice, we hired the ragee for forty lories to escort us with
... Departing at two next morning, the ragee led us in a direction quite ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"This ragee was kind to me as a stranger, asking many questions of our ...
He advised to get this ragee to guide us, told of the great trade of Tutta, ..."
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