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Rid
() To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.
Rid
() To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.
Ridable
() Suitable for riding; as, a ridable horse; a ridable road.
Riddance
() The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.
Riddance
() The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
Ridden
() p. p. of Ride.
Ridder
() One who, or that which, rids.
Riddle
() A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
Riddle
() A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
Riddled
() of Riddle
Riddling
() of Riddle
Riddle
() To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
Riddle
() To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
Riddle
() Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
Riddle
() To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
Riddle
() To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Riddler
() One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).
Riddler
() One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.
Riddling
() Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
Rode
() of Ride
Rid
() of Ride
Ridden
() of Ride
Rid
() of Ride
Riding
() of Ride
Ride
() To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
Ride
() To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
Ride
() To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
Ride
() To be supported in motion; to rest.
Ride
() To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
Ride
() To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
Ride
() To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
Ride
() To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
Ride
() To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
Ride
() To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.
Ride
() The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
Ride
() A saddle horse.
Ride
() A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
Rideau
() A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.
Riden
() imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride.
Rident
() Laughing.
Rider
() One who, or that which, rides.
Rider
() Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.
Rider
() One who breaks or manages a horse.
Rider
() 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.
Rider
() A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
Rider
() A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
Rider
() Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
Rider
() 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.
Rider
() The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
Rider
() 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.