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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 rice /ˈraɪs/
 米,飯,稻(vt.)舂(米)

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 RICE 縮寫

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Rice n.  Bot. A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed.  This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.
 Ant rice. Bot. See under Ant.
 French rice. Bot. See Amelcorn.
 Indian rice., a tall reedlike water grass (Zizania aquatica), bearing panicles of a long, slender grain, much used for food by North American Indians. It is common in shallow water in the Northern States. Called also water oat, Canadian wild rice, etc.
 Mountain rice, any species of an American genus (Oryzopsis) of grasses, somewhat resembling rice.
 Rice bunting. Zool. Same as Ricebird.
 Rice hen Zool., the Florida gallinule.
 Rice mouse Zool., a large dark-colored field mouse (Calomys palistris) of the Southern United States.
 Rice paper, a kind of thin, delicate paper, brought from China, -- used for painting upon, and for the manufacture of fancy articles. It is made by cutting the pith of a large herb (Fatsia papyrifera, related to the ginseng) into one roll or sheet, which is flattened out under pressure. Called also pith paper.
 Rice troupial Zool., the bobolink.
 Rice water, a drink for invalids made by boiling a small quantity of rice in water.
 Rice-water discharge Med., a liquid, resembling rice water in appearance, which is vomited, and discharged from the bowels, in cholera.
 Rice weevil Zool., a small beetle (Calandra oryzae, or Sitophilus oryzae) which destroys rice, wheat, and Indian corn by eating out the interior; -- called also black weevil.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 rice
      n 1: grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
      2: annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for
         food; straw used for paper
      3: English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd
         Webber (born in 1944) [syn: Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Miles
         Bindon Rice]
      4: United States playwright (1892-1967) [syn: Elmer Rice, Elmer
         Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein]
      v : sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice; "rice the
          potatoes"