RIDE, v.i. pret. rode or rid; pp. rid, ridden. [L rheda, a chariot or vehicle.] 1. To be carried on horseback, or on any beast, or in any vehicle. We ride on a horse, on a camel, in a coach, chariot, wagon, &c.2. To be borne on or in a fluid. A ship rides at anchor; the ark rode on the flood; a balloon rides in the air.He rode on a cherub and did fly; yea, he did fly on the wings of the wind. Ps. 18.3. To be supported in motion.Strong as the axle-tree on which heaven rides.4. To practice riding. He rides often for his health.5. To manage a horse well.He rode, he fenc'd, he mov'd with graceful ease.6. To be supported by something subservient; to sit.On whose foolish honesty my practices rid easy.To ride easy, in seaman's language, is when a ship does not labor or feel a great strain on her cables.To ride hard, is when a ship pitches violently, so as to strain her cables, masts and hull.To ride out, as a gale, signifies that a ship does not drive during a storm.RIDE, v.t. 1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse.They ride the air in whirlwind.2. To manage insolently at will; as in priestridden.The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers and brewers.3. To carry. [Local.]RIDE, n. 1. An excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.2. A saddle horse. [Local.]3. A road cut in a wood or through a ground for the amusement of riding; a riding.
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