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ridden 音标拼音: [r'ɪdən] = rideRidden \ Rid" den\, p. p. of { Ride.} [ 1913 Webster]
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[ imac] dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. r[ imac] tan, Icel. r[ imac][ 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. [ 1913 Webster] To- morrow, when ye riden by the way. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below. [ 1913 Webster] The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie. [ 1913 Webster] Men once walked where ships at anchor ride. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To be supported in motion; to rest. [ 1913 Webster] Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy! -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To manage a horse, as an equestrian. [ 1913 Webster] He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] " Will you ride over or drive?" said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning. -- W. Black. [ 1913 Webster]
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