KJV Dictionary Definition: ride

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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.

riding

RI'DING, ppr. from ride.

1. Passing or traveling on a beast or in a vehicle; floating.

2. a. Employed to travel on any occasion.

No suffragan bishop shall have more than one riding apparitor.

RI'DING, n.

1. A road cut in a wood or through a ground, for the diversion of riding therein.

2. corrupted from trithing, third. One of the three intermediate jurisdictions between a three and a hundred, into which the county of York, in England, is divided, anciently under the government of a reeve.