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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ride \ride\, v. t.
   1. to sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to
      ride a bicycle.
      1913 webster

            they rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the
            air
            in whirlwind.                         --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
      1913 webster

            the nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by
            bakers, cobblers, and brewers.        --swift.
      1913 webster

   3. to convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
      1913 webster

            tue only men that safe can ride
            mine errands on the scottish side.    --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

   4. surg. to overlap each other; -- said of bones or
      fractured fragments.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
to ride a hobby to ride and tie to ride down to ride out 

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