The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ride \Ride\, v. t.
1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to
ride a bicycle.
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[They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the
air
In whirlwind. --Milton.
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2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
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The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by
bakers, cobblers, and brewers. --Swift.
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3. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
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Tue only men that safe can ride
Mine errands on the Scottish side. --Sir W.
Scott.
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4. (Surg.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or
fractured fragments.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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[imac]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G.
reiten, OHG. r[imac]tan, Icel. r[imac][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.
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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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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.
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.
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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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Ride \Ride\, n.
1. The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a
vehicle.
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2. A saddle horse. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
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3. A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be
used as a place for riding; a riding.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bodkin \Bod"kin\ (b[o^]d"k[i^]n), n. [OE. boydekyn dagger; of
uncertain origin; cf. W. bidog hanger, short sword, Ir.
bideog, Gael. biodag.]
1. A dagger. [Obs.]
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When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin. --Shak.
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2. (Needlework) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc.,
with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a
stiletto; an eyeleteer.
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3. (Print.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking out
letters from a column or page in making corrections.
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4. A kind of needle with a large eye and a blunt point, for
drawing tape, ribbon, etc., through a loop or a hem; a
tape needle.
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Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye. --Pope.
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5. A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair.
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To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged
between two persons. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
188 Moby Thesaurus words for "ride":
Sunday drive, abut on, aggravate, airing, annoy, auto, badger,
bait, bamboozle, banter, be at, be based on, bear on, bedevil,
beset, bestraddle, bestride, bicycle, bike, bother, bristle,
brown off, bug, bully, bullyrag, bump off, burn up, bus,
catch a train, chaff, chauffeur, cheat, chivy, cycle, deceive,
defraud, delude, deride, devil, discompose, distemper, disturb,
dog, dominate, drift, drive, entrain, exasperate, excursion,
exercise, expedition, fash, float, foot, get, ghost, glide,
go by rail, grin at, gripe, gull, harass, harry, hassle, haze,
heckle, hector, hold in derision, hound, humbug, imbricate,
intimidate, irk, irritate, jape, jaunt, jest, jive, joke, jolly,
josh, journey, joyride, kid, lap, laugh at, laugh to scorn,
lean on, lie, lie athwart, lie on, lift, make a train, make fun of,
make game of, make heavy weather, make merry with, miff, molest,
motor, motorcycle, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, oppress, outing,
outride, overlie, override, pan, pedal, peeve, perch, persecute,
pester, pick on, pickup, pillory, pique, plague, plow the deep,
pluck the beard, point at, poke fun at, pother, provoke, put on,
put one on, rag, rally, razz, rely on, repose on, rest, rest on,
rib, ride at anchor, ride easy, ride hawse full, ride out,
ride the sea, ridicule, rile, roast, roil, ruffle, run, sail, scud,
shingle, shoot, sit in, sit on, skim, slip, smile at, snicker at,
snigger at, spin, stand on, straddle, stride, swindle, take,
take a joyride, take in, taxi, tease, terrorize, torment, torture,
tour, trick, trip, try the patience, turn, tweak the nose, twit,
tyrannize, vex, walk the waters, wash, weather, weather the storm,
wheel, whirl, worry
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
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