ryot

[Arab. ra ' iyat =the governed. .. a subject, a peasant.] A Hindu cultivator of the soil; a peasant who holds lands under the system of ryotwar (q. v.). ry-ot-war, ry-ot-war-ee, subst . [Hind., ., ray at war i.] A system of a e ment carried out in Madras by which the government enters into direct relations with the cultivator, setting aside all middlemen and village communities, and taxes him only for the land actually taken into cultivation. Since 1858 the system has been remodeled and im proved. There is fixity of a e ment for thirty years. ry-sim-ě-těr, s. [RHYSIMETER.] *ryth, s. [Etym. doubtful.] A ford. :-ti-dom, s . [RHYTIDOMA.] ry-ti-ną, s. [RHYTINA.] ry-ti-phlœ-ą, subst . [Gr. rhytis =a wrinkle, and phloios the rind or bark. So named because the filaments are marked by numerous transverse rugosities.] Bot.: A genus of Rhodomeleæ. Rytiphlœa tinc toria yields a red dye called by the Romans Fucus. THE nineteenth letter and the fifteenth consonant of the English alphabet, represents a hi ing sound, and is cla ed as a sibilant. "In pronounc ings, we touch the gum with a part of the tongue just above that part which is used in pronouncing the palatals; but we touch the gum so lightly, and with the tongue so broadened out that we do not stop the outward flow of the breath completely; itoozes forth with that hi ing sound which, whether in the human organ or in any other machine, invariably results from the rapid flow of air through a gravity 0.845. It crystallizes in stellate groups of cubic crystals which melt at 200°, but decompose at a higher temperature; is slightly soluble in hot water, very soluble in alcohol, insoluble in ether. Strong mineral acids decompose it, but it forms salts with dilute sulphuric and nitric acids.