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Ride [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Ride [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense rode or rid; participle passive rid, ridden. [L rheda, a chariot or vehicle.]

2. 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, etc.

3. 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.

4. He rode on a cherub and did fly; yea, he did fly on the wings of the wind. Psalms 18:1 .

5. To be supported in motion.

6. Strong as the axle-tree on which heaven rides.

7. To practice riding. He rides often for his health.

8. To manage a horse well.

9. He rode, he fenc'd, he mov'd with graceful ease.

10. To be supported by something subservient; to sit.

11. On whose foolish honesty my practices rid easy.

12. To ride easy, in seaman's language, is when a ship does not labor or feel a great strain on her cables.

13. To ride hard, is when a ship pitches violently, so as to strain her cables, masts and hull.

14. To ride out, as a gale, signifies that a ship does not drive during a storm.

Ride [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse.

2. They ride the air in whirlwind.

3. To manage insolently at will; as in priestridden.

4. The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers and brewers.

5. To carry. [Local.]

Ride [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

2. A saddle horse.

3. A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.

Ride [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

2. To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.

3. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.

4. To be supported in motion; to rest.

5. To manage a horse, as an equestrian.

6. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

Ride [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.

2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

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

4. To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.

Rideau [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.

Riden Webster's Dictionary 1913

imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride.

Rident [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Laughing.

Rider [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who is borne on a horse or other beast, or in a vehicle.

2. One who breaks or manages a horse.

3. The matrix of an ore.

4. An inserted leaf or an additional clause, as to a bill in parliament.

5. In ship building, a short of interior rib fixed occasionally in a ships's hold, opposite to some of the timbers to which they are bolted, and reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.

Rider [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, rides.

2. Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.

3. One who breaks or manages a horse.

4. An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed.

5. A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.

6. A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.

7. Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.

8. An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.

9. The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.

10. A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.

11. A robber.

Riderless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having no rider; as, a riderless horse.

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Genesis 41:43

And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

He had Joseph ride in his second chariot, with men calling out before him, “Bow the knee!” So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 49:17

Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

Exodus 15:1

Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.

Exodus 15:21

And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

And Miriam sang back to them: “Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.”

Leviticus 15:9

And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean.

Any saddle on which the man with the discharge rides will be unclean.

Deuteronomy 32:13

He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

Deuteronomy 33:26

There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.

“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

Judges 5:10

Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

You who ride white donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, and you who travel the road, ponder

2 Samuel 16:2

And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

“Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is to refresh those who become exhausted in the wilderness.”

2 Samuel 19:26

And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.

“My lord the king,” he replied, “because I am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled so that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ But my servant Ziba deceived me,

1 Kings 1:33

The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:

“Take my servants with you,” said the king. “Set my son Solomon on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.

1 Kings 1:38

So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.

Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, went down and set Solomon on King David’s mule, and they escorted him to Gihon.

1 Kings 1:44

And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule:

And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, along with the Cherethites and Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.

2 Kings 9:17

And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

Now the watchman standing on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu’s troops approaching, and he called out, “I see a company of troops!” “Choose a rider,” Joram commanded. “Send him out to meet them and ask, ‘Have you come in peace?’”

2 Kings 10:16

And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.

saying, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD!” So he had him ride in his chariot.

2 Kings 18:23

Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!

Esther 6:8

Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:

have them bring a royal robe that the king himself has worn and a horse on which the king himself has ridden—one with a royal crest placed on its head.

Esther 8:10

And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:

Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.

Job 30:22

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

Job 39:18

What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.