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6 definitions found 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]: Riding \Rid"ing\, n. 1. The act or state of one who rides. 2. A festival procession. [Obs.] When there any riding was in Cheap. --Chaucer. 3. Same as {Ride}, n., 3. --Sir P. Sidney. 4. A district in charge of an excise officer. [Eng.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Riding \Rid"ing\ (r[imac]d"[i^]ng), n. [For thriding, Icel. [thorn]ri[eth]jungr the third part fr [thorn]ri[eth]i third akin to E. third See {Third}.] One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding. --Blackstone. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Riding \Rid"ing\, a. 1. Employed to travel; traveling; as a riding clerk. ``One riding apparitor.'' --Ayliffe. 2. Used for riding on as a riding horse. 3. Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day {Riding clerk}. a A clerk who traveled for a commercial house. [Obs. Eng.] b One of the ``six clerks'' formerly attached to the English Court of Chancery. {Riding hood}. a A hood formerly worn by women when riding. b A kind of cloak with a hood. {Riding master}, an instructor in horsemanship. {Riding rhyme} (Pros.), the meter of five accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales. --Dr. Guest. {Riding school}, a school or place where the art of riding is taught. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Trithing \Tri"thing\, n. [See Ist {Riding}.] One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called {riding}. [Written also {riding}.] --Blackstone. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: riding adj : traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g.; "the riding public welcomed the new buses" [syn: {awheel}] n 1: riding a horse as a sport [syn: {horseback riding}, {equitation}] 2: riding a horse as a means of transportation [syn: {horseback riding}]
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