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   Ride , v. i. [imp. Rode  (Rid [rĭd], archaic); p. p. Ridden  (Rid, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n. Riding .] [AS. rīdan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. rītan, Icel. rīða, Sw. rida, Dan. ride; cf. L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word.  Cf. Road.]
   To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
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   To-morrow, when ye riden by the way.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him.
   Swift.
   
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   To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
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   The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants.
   Macaulay.
   
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   To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
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   Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.
   Dryden.
   
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   To be supported in motion; to rest.
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   Strong as the exletree
   On which heaven rides.
   Shak.
   
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   On whose foolish honesty
   My practices ride easy!
   Shak.
   
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   To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
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   He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.
   Dryden.
   
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   To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
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   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.
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   Syn. -- Drive.  -- 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.
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   “Will you ride over or drive?” said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning.
   W. Black.
   
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   Riding , n. [For thriding, Icel. þriðjungr the third part, fr. þriði 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.
   
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   Riding, a.
   Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. “One riding apparitor.”  
   Ayliffe.
   
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   Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
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   Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day.
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   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.
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   Riding, n.
   The act or state of one who rides.
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   A festival procession. [Obs.]
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   When there any riding was in Cheap.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Same as Ride, n., 3.
   Sir P. Sidney.
   
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   A district in charge of an excise officer. [Eng.]
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   Trithing , n. [See Ist Riding.] One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding. [Written also riding.]
   Blackstone.
   
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