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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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"Rid" Quotes from Famous Books



... I was running here—Oh, girls, I had such a lark! What do you think happened? That horrid Alice—Alice Tennant—ran after me as I was leaving the house. I raced her across the common, and then to get rid of her I climbed up into an oak-tree. She never saw me, and ran on down the passage. Of course, my only chance of getting to the station was to go by the long way.—Half-way there I came across your mother, Susy, and ...
— The Rebel of the School • Mrs. L. T. Meade
... having received encouragement from Sophia, and being vehemently pressed by Mrs Honour, she proceeded thus:—"He told us, madam, though to be sure it is all a lie, that your ladyship was dying for love of the young squire, and that he was going to the wars to get rid of you. I thought to myself then he was a false-hearted wretch; but, now, to see such a fine, rich, beautiful lady as you be, forsaken for such an ordinary woman; for to be sure so she is, ...
— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding
... meaning was starry clear. I thanked her, and said that the best thing we could do was to take counsel together. Which we did there under the shelter of the great holly-bush. So much so that any one passing that way might have taken us for foolish lovers, instead of two people plotting how to get rid ...
— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett
... anything, twice every day, as he produces his morning and evening editions, Brown is polluting the head waters of our national existence. I say, why not let me kill him? What more useful and direct thing could I do than rid the nation of him? And O Diana, when I think of the smut to which he coupled your loveliness, I feel that I am less than a man ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... upon the straw. I knew nothing of lunatics; and the idea of a wild man stimulated my curiosity to such an extent, that, from that time, I teased my grandfather incessantly to let me see Jacob, until he finally yielded, to be rid of my importunity, and led me to the cell in which he was confined. What a spectacle presented itself in the house that I had looked on as the abode of so much comfort! On a bundle of straw, in a corner of a room, with no furniture save its bare walls, sat a man, clad only ...
— A Practical Illustration of Woman's Right to Labor - A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia • Marie E. Zakrzewska


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