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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rid \Rid\, imp. & p. p. of {Ride}, v. i. [Archaic] He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted. --Thackeray. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rid \Rid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rid} or {Ridded}; p. pr & vb n. {Ridding}.] [OE. ridden, redden, AS hreddan to deliver, liberate; akin to D. & LG redden, G. retten, Dan. redde, Sw r["a]dda, and perhaps to Skr. ?rath to loosen.] 1. To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of [Obs.] Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked. --Ps. lxxxii. 4. 2. To free to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of ``Rid all the sea of pirates.'' --Shak. In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me --De Quincey. 3. To drive away to remove by effort or violence; to make away with to destroy. [Obs.] I will red evil beasts out of the land. --Lev. xxvi. 6. Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince! --Shak. 4. To get over to dispose of to dispatch; to finish. [R.] ``Willingness rids way.'' --Shak. Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails. --J. Webster. {To be rid of}, to be free or delivered from {To get rid of}, to get deliverance from to free one's self from From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ride \Ride\, v. i. [imp. {Rode} (r[=o]d) ({Rid} [r[i^]d], archaic); p. p. {Ridden}({Rid}, archaic); p. pr & vb n. {Riding}.] [AS. r[=i]dan; akin to LG riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. r[=i]tan, Icel. r[=i][eth]a, Sw rida, Dan. ride; cf L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word Cf {Road}.] 1. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. To-morrow, when ye riden by the way --Chaucer. Let your master ride on before and do you gallop after him --Swift. 2. To be borne in a carriage; as to ride in a coach, in a car and the like See Synonym, below. The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants. --Macaulay. 3. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie. Men once walked where ships at anchor ride. --Dryden. 4. To be supported in motion; to rest. Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides. --Shak. On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy! --Shak. 5. To manage a horse, as an equestrian. He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease. --Dryden. 6. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast {To ride easy} (Naut.), to lie at anchor without violent pitching or straining at the cables. {To ride hard} (Naut.), to pitch violently. {To ride out}. a To go upon a military expedition. [Obs.] --Chaucer. b To ride in the open air. [Colloq.] {To ride to hounds}, to ride behind, and near to the hounds in hunting. Syn: Drive. Usage: {Ride}, {Drive}. Ride originally meant (and is so used throughout the English Bible) to be carried on horseback or in a vehicle of any kind At present in England, drive is the word applied in most cases to progress in a carriage; as a drive around the park, etc.; while ride is appropriated to progress on a horse. Johnson seems to sanction this distinction by giving ``to travel on horseback'' as the leading sense of ride; though he adds ``to travel in a vehicle'' as a secondary sense This latter use of the word still occurs to some extent; as the queen rides to Parliament in her coach of state; to ride in an omnibus. ``Will you ride over or drive?'' said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning. --W. Black. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Monosaccharide \Mon`o*sac"cha*ride\, n. Also -rid \-rid\ . [Mono- + saccharide.] (Chem.) A simple sugar; any of a number of sugars (including the trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Trisaccharide \Tri*sac"cha*ride\, n. Also -rid \-rid\ (Chem.) A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: rid adj : (usually followed by `of') released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty); "quit of all further responsibility for their safety"; "well rid of him" [syn: {quit(p)}, {rid(p)}] v : relieve from "Rid the the house of pests" [syn: {free}, {disembarrass}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: RID Relative IDentifier
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