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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle. [1913 Webster]
[They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
2.To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. [1913 Webster]
The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.— Swift.[1913 Webster]
3.To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. [1913 Webster]
Tue only men that safe can ride Mine errands on the Scottish side.— Sir W. Scott.[1913 Webster]
4.(Surg.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments. [1913 Webster]
To ride a hobby, to have some favorite occupation or subject of talk.
To ride and tie, to take turn with another in labor and rest; -- from the expedient adopted by two persons with one horse, one of whom rides the animal a certain distance, and then ties him for the use of the other, who is coming up on foot. --Fielding.
To ride down. (a) To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy. (b) (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail.
To ride out (Naut.), to keep safe afloat during (a storm) while riding at anchor or when hove to on the open sea; as, to ride out the gale. [1913 Webster]
1.To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. [1913 Webster]
To-morrow, when ye riden by the way.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]
Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him.— Swift.[1913 Webster]
2.To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below. [1913 Webster]
The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]
3.To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie. [1913 Webster]
Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
4.To be supported in motion; to rest. [1913 Webster]
Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy!— Shak.[1913 Webster]
5.To manage a horse, as an equestrian. [1913 Webster]
He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
6.To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
"Will you ride over or drive?" said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning.— W. Black.[1913 Webster]