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Rid   /rɪd/   Listen
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Rid  v. t.  (past & past part. rid; pres. part. ridding)  
1.
To save; to rescue; to deliver; with out of. (Obs.) "Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked."
2.
To free; to clear; to disencumber; followed by of. "Rid all the sea of pirates." "In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me."
3.
To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy. (Obs.) "I will red evil beasts out of the land." "Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince!"
4.
To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish. (R.) "Willingness rids way." "Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails."
To be rid of, to be free or delivered from.
To get rid of, to get deliverance from; to free one's self from.


Ride  v. t.  (past rode, archaic rid; past part. ridden, archaic rid; pres. part. riding)  
1.
To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle. "(They) rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind."
2.
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. "The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers."
3.
To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. "Tue only men that safe can ride Mine errands on the Scottish side."
4.
(Surg.) To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
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.
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.


Ride  v. i.  (past rode, archaic rid; past part. ridden, archaic rid; pres. part. riding)  
1.
To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. "To-morrow, when ye riden by the way." "Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him."
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."
3.
To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie. "Men once walked where ships at anchor ride."
4.
To be supported in motion; to rest. "Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides." "On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy!"
5.
To manage a horse, as an equestrian. "He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease."
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.)
(b)
To ride in the open air. (Colloq.)
To ride to hounds, to ride behind, and near to, the hounds in hunting.
Synonyms: 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. ""Will you ride over or drive?" said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning."


Rid  v.  Imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. (Archaic) "He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted."





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... effect. On the 3rd of July, he hopes that, as parliament is about to meet, the Lord-Lieutenant "will be impowered in his speech to speak clearly as to the business of the halfpence, and thoroughly rid this nation of their fear on that head."[3] Boulter's advice was taken. On the 14th August, 1725, a vacation of the patent was issued, and when parliament met shortly after, the Lord-Lieutenant was able, in his speech, to announce that his Majesty had put an entire end to the patent granted Wood ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. VI; The Drapier's Letters • Jonathan Swift
... easily get rid of all our corns if we could make up our minds to do without shoes, or even to wear them of such a large size as would prevent all pressure upon the corn. This disagreeable effect results quite as often from badly made boots as from injudiciously ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... de large pot, Catharine; we're gwine to have soup to-day"—and Harriet started for the market. The day was nearly over, and the market-men were anxious to be rid of their wares, and were offering them very cheap. Harriet walked along with the basket on her arm. "Old woman, don't you want a nice piece of meat?" called out one; and another, "Here's a nice piece; only ten cents. Take this soup-bone, you can have it ...
— Harriet, The Moses of Her People • Sarah H. Bradford
... need her guidance it seems," said he to himself, as he rode slowly onward; "and I suppose that was one reason of her abrupt departure, so different from what one might have expected.—Well, I am well rid of her. Do we not pray to be liberated from temptation? Yet that she should have erred so much in estimation of her own situation and mine, as to think of defraying the reckoning! I would I saw her once more, but to explain to her the solecism of which her inexperience ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott
... imagination,' states that that Self which through meditation on Brahman, is freed from all imagination so as to be like Brahman, is the object to be attained. (The three forms of imagination to be got rid of are so- called karma-bhvan, brahma-bhvan and a combination of the two. See Vi. Pu. VI, 7.) The text then goes on, 'The embodied Self is the user of the instrument, knowledge is its instrument; having accomplished Release— whereby his object is ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut


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