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English Dictionary: ride	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ride n a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile); "he took the family for a drive in his new car" Synonym(s): drive, ride a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement v sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions; "She never sat a horse!"; "Did you ever ride a camel?"; "The girl liked to drive the young mare" Synonym(s): ride, sit be carried or travel on or in a vehicle; "I ride to work in a bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day" Antonym(s): walk continue undisturbed and without interference; "Let it ride" move like a floating object; "The moon rode high in the night sky" harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" Synonym(s): tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride be sustained or supported or borne; "His glasses rode high on his nose"; "The child rode on his mother's hips"; "She rode a wave of popularity"; "The brothers rode to an easy victory on their father's political name" have certain properties when driven; "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" Synonym(s): drive, ride be contingent on; "The outcomes rides on the results of the election"; "Your grade will depends on your homework" Synonym(s): depend on, devolve on, depend upon, ride, turn on, hinge on, hinge upon lie moored or anchored; "Ship rides at anchor" sit on and control a vehicle; "He rides his bicycle to work every day"; "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town" climb up on the body; "Shorts that ride up"; "This skirt keeps riding up my legs" ride over, along, or through; "Ride the freeways of California" keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot; "Don't ride the clutch!" copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow" Synonym(s): ride, mount
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ride \Ride\, v. t. 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. --Milton. 2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. --Swift. 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. --Sir W. Scott. 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. --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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ride \Ride\, v. i. [imp. {Rode} (r[omac]d) ({Rid} [r[icr]d], archaic); p. p. {Ridden}({Rid}, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n. {Riding}.] [AS. r[c6]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. r[c6]tan, Icel. r[c6][edh]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. To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. --Chaucer. Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him. --Swift. 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. --Macaulay. 3. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie. Men once walked where ships at anchor ride. --Dryden. 4. To be supported in motion; to rest. Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides. --Shak. On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy! --Shak. 5. To manage a horse, as an equestrian. He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease. --Dryden. 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.] --Chaucer. (b) To ride in the open air. [Colloq.] {To ride to hounds}, to ride behind, and near to, the hounds in hunting. 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 [bd]to travel on horseback[b8] as the leading sense of ride; though he adds [bd]to travel in a vehicle[b8] 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. [bd]Will you ride over or drive?[b8] said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning. --W. Black.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ride \Ride\, n. 1. The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle. 2. A saddle horse. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. 3. A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bodkin \Bod"kin\ (b[ocr]d"k[icr]n), n. [OE. boydekyn dagger; of uncertain origin; cf. W. bidog hanger, short sword, Ir. bideog, Gael. biodag.] 1. A dagger. [Obs.] When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. --Shak. 2. (Needlework) An implement of steel, bone, ivory, etc., with a sharp point, for making holes by piercing; a [?]tiletto; an eyeleteer. 3. (Print.) A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking [?]ut letters from a column or page in making corrections. 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. Wedged whole ages in a bodkin's eye. --Pope. 5. A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair. {To sit}, {ride}, or {travel bodkin}, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.