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[=i]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. r[=i]tan, Icel. r[=i][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.
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 ``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. --W. Black.
The analysis is as dark and pathetic, as ridden with complexes and hatreds as that of any important public man of our times.
Mr. Sullivan and the team were debt ridden because of a disastrous decision to manage a concert tour for pop singer Michael Jackson and because the franchise had never been well capitalized.
It has ridden out the recession by quietly, carefully getting on with its business, which Mr Kaye describes as 'one of the most straightforward and tidy ones you could find.
If you don't knock him down, he's going to be even stronger." Soldiers who came here primed for battle have ridden a roller coaster of shifting emotions while diplomats have tried to settle the crisis with talk instead of bullets.
Others have ridden bicycles beside it.
A horse called Mother Superior, to be ridden by Sister Sebastian Kennedy, didn't show up at the course at all.
BAe's new management may have had its share of luck, but at least it has ridden it well.
Finally, he did in 1894, and if he had ridden his bicycle more carefully, he might have been at the premiere.
Some have never actually ridden the rails.
About 3.5 million passengers have ridden Greyhound since the strike began.
The 'Town Council Novices' Steeplechase' at Market Rasen in Lincolnshire was won by Corrupt Committee, ridden by A Tory.
He had earlier ridden in the van in which they were murdered. Also in 1980, he attended the tumultuous funeral of his friend, assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero.
Five years ago: Sunny's Halo, ridden by Eddie Delahoussaye, took command in the stretch to win the Kentucky Derby on a rainy day at Churchill Downs.
It was the first time humans had ridden the basket since it was installed several years ago for the shuttle program.
FIVE-YEAR LEADER Merrill Lynch Pacific Fund +299.23% Stephen Silverman, Fund Manager The $321 million Merrill Lynch Pacific Fund has ridden the rising wave of the Tokyo stock market this year, propping its Japanese holdings to about 80% of the portfolio.
"I've never ridden a ferry.
Most were ridden out of the squadron after this fatal character flaw was exposed, but one senior pilot used his connections in Washington, finished his tour and later got promoted.
We have ridden recession because we had hard-working facilities and people.' Sheffield's problem is that its manufacturing has survived at the expense of jobs.
Fourteen foreign astronauts have ridden into space aboard Soyuz capsules, but Akiyama is the first paying non-scientific passenger.
The print is actually at the RA but as part of the great Mantegna exhibition: the National Gallery in Washington bought it from Hill-Stone last autumn and has loaned it to the show. Print dealers have ridden the recession better than most.
"Hershey has ridden on Jell-O's coattails," said Prudential Bache's Mr. McMillin.
The East Germans have ridden a roller coaster of emotions in the past 10 days.
Asked how he felt about his predicament, he said "a little bit like the fellow who was immersed in tar and feathers and was being ridden out of town on a rail.
Michaela and Trina Rodriguez, 8, had ridden scooters to the market to buy soda and candy.
It didn't look like happy trails for CBS, but "Lonesome Dove" has ridden to the rescue.
Mr Nicholas Knight, the strongest bull of the London market, told clients that they should 'worry less about US, more about Japan.' He believes that Wall Street has ridden fairly comfortably through the scare that US interest rates may be about to rise.
Mr. Greenfield has ridden the crest of that tidal wave: Of the 15 most prominent shareholder suits filed last year, according to Wyatt Co., a corporate consulting concern, Mr. Greenfield handled seven.
Analysts say PaineWebber has kept costs down and ridden the resurgence of individual investors this year.
It is associated with hope but is also ridden with alarm.
It was easily adapted to several vehicles, but now Chrysler increasingly believes it has "ridden the K-car about as far as it will go," says one executive.