rid

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

past tense & past participle of Ride, intransitive verb archaic

He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted.— William M. Thackeray

Origin: OE. ridden, redden, AS. hreddan to deliver, liberate; akin to D. & LG. redden, G. retten, Dan. redde, Sw. rädda, and perhaps to Skr. …rath to loosen.

1. To save; to rescue; to deliver; — with out of. obsolete

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.” William Shakespeare

In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me.— Thomas DeQuincey

3. To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy. obsolete

I will red evil beasts out of the land.— Lev. xxvi. 6.

Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince!— William Shakespeare

4. To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish. rare “Willingness rids way.” William Shakespeare

Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails.— John 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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54