rider 
The proposed amendment had been given by the pre- 
vious action of the House, a rider providing lor compen- 
sation to distillers. The American, VI. 36. 
But the Pacific Mail and its friends in Congress did not 
despair, and success came at last by a rider to the General 
Post-Ofnce appropriation bill passed by Congress, Febru- 
ary 18, 1867. Congressional Record, XXI. 7770. 
(</) In printing, a cylindrical rod of iron which in use rests 
on the top of an ink-roller, and aids in evenly distributing 
the ink on this roller, (e) A supplementary part of a 
question in an examination, especially in the Cambridge 
mathematical tripos, connected with or dependent on the 
main question. 
Though the riders were Joined to the propositions on 
which then- solution depended, and though all these riders 
were easy, very few of the papers were satisfactory. 
Science, XI. 75. 
(/) In a snake fence, a rail or stake one end of which rests 
on the ground, while the other end crosses and bears upon 
the fence-rails at their angle of meeting, and thus holds 
them in place. [Local, IT. S.] 
7. In mining, a ferruginous veinstone, or a simi- 
lar impregnation of the walls adjacent to the 
vein. [North of Eug. mining districts.] 
In Alston the contents of the unproductive parts of 
veins are chiefly described as dowk and rider. The former 
is a brown, friable, and soft soil ; the latter a hard stony 
matter, varying much in colour, hardness, and other char- 
acteristics. Sopwith, Mining Districts of Alston Moor, 
[Weardale, and Teesdale, p. 108. 
8. One of a series of interior ribs fixed occa- 
sionally iii a ship's hold, opposite to some of the 
principal timbers, to which they are bolted, and 
reaching from the keelson to the beams of the 
lower deck, to strengthen the frame. 0. A 
piece of wood in a gun-carriage on which the 
side pieces rest. 10. A gold coin formerly cur- 
rent in the Netherlands: so called from its ob- 
verse type being the figure of a horseman. The 
specimen nere illustrated was struck by Charles of Eg- 
Kider of Charles of Egmont, Duke of Gelderland. British Museum. 
(Size of the original.) 
mont, Duke of Gelderland (sixteenth century), and weighs 
nearly 50 grains. The name was also given to a gold coin 
of Scotland, issued by James VI., worth about ?2. 
His mouldy money ! Half-a-dozen riders, 
That cannot sit, but stampt fast to their saddles. 
Beau, and Fl. 
Bush-rider, in Australia, a cross-country rider ; one who 
can ride horses over rough or dangerous ground ; also, one 
who can ride imperfectly broken horses. 
An excellent bushrider, if not a first-class rough-rider, 
there were few horses he could not back with a fair chance 
of remaining in the saddle. 
A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I. 262. 
Rider keelson. .See keelson. Rider's bone, an exosto- 
sis at the origin of the adductor longus. Also called drill 
bone. Rider truss, an early form of tram truss, composed 
of a cast-iron upper chord, wrought-iron lower chord, and 
vertical posts of cast-iron, and diagonal braces of wrought- 
iron. 
ridered (ri'derd), a. [< rider + -ecP.] Carry- 
ing a rider; specifically, having riders or stakes 
laid across the bars, as a snake fence. [Local, 
U.S.] 
The fences are generally too high to jump, being usually 
what are called staked and ridered fences. 
Tribune Book of Sports, p. 4. 
riderless (ri'der-les), a. [< rider + -7m.] 
Having no rider. 
He caught a riderless horse, and the cornet mounted. 
//. Kingsley, Raveushoe, liv. 
rider-roll (ri'der-rol), n, A separate addition 
made to a roll or record. See rider, 5 (c). 
ridge (rij), n. [< ME. rigge, rygge; also with- 
out assibilation rig, ryg, rug (> E. dial, rig), < 
AS. hrycg, the back of a man or beast, = MD. 
rugge, D. rug = OLG. ruggi, MLQ. rugge = OHG. 
hrucci, hriicki, rucki, MHG. rucke, rUcke, G. 
riicken = Icel. hryggr = Sw. rygg = Dan. ryg, 
the back; cf. Ir. crown, skin, back.] 1. The 
back of aiiy animal ; especially, the upper or pro- 
jecting part of the back of a quadruped. 
All is rede, Ribbe and rigge, 
The bak bledeth ajens the lx>rde. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 202. 
His ryche robe he to rof of his rigge naked, 
And of a hepe of askes he hitte in the myddej. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. MorrisX UL 379. 
There the pore preseth bifor the riche with a pakke at 
hisrugge. Piers Plourman(B), xiv. 212. 
On the other side of the aloes, not fifteen paces from 
us, I made out the horns, neck, and the ridge of the back 
of a tremendous old bull. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 186. 
5172 
2. Any extended protuberance; a projecting 
line or strip ; a long and narrow pile sloping at 
the sides; specifically, a long elevation of land, 
or the summit of such an elevation ; an ex- 
tended hill or mountain. 
Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps, 
Or any other ground inhabitaliK 1 . 
Shot., Rich. II., i. 1. 64. 
The snow-white ridge 
Of carded wool, which the old man had piled. 
Wordsworth, The Brothers. 
3. In tigi'i., a strip of ground thrown up by a 
plow or left between furrows ; a bed of ground 
formed by furrow-slices running the whole 
length of the field, varying in breadth accord- 
ing to circumstances, and divided from another 
by gutters or open furrows, parallel to each 
other, which last serve as guides to the hand 
and eye of the sower, to the reapers, and also 
for the application of manures in a regular man- 
ner. In wet soils they also serve as drains for 
carrying off the surface-water. In Wales, for- 
merly, a measure of land, 20$ feet. 
Lete se the lltel plough, the large also, 
The rimes forto enhance. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 42. 
Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly : thou set- 
tlest the furrows thereof. Ps. Ixv. 10. 
4. The highest part of the roof of a building; 
specifically, the meeting of the upper ends of 
the rafters. When the upper ends of the rafters abut 
against a horizontal piece of timber, it is called a ridge- 
pole. Ridge also denotes the internal angle or nook of a 
vault. See cut under roof. 
5. In fort., the highest portion of the glacis, pro- 
ceeding from the salient angle of the covered 
way. 6. In anat. and :ool., a prominent bor- 
der; an elevated line, or crest; a lineal protu- 
berance : said especially of rough elevations on 
bonesformuscular or ligamentous attachments: 
as, the superciliary, occipital, mylohyoid, con- 
dylar, etc., ridge?. 7. A succession of small 
processes along the small abaft the hump of a 
sperm-whale, or the top of the back just for- 
ward of the small. The ridge is thickest just 
around the hump. See scrag-whale. 8. One 
of the several linear elevations of the lining 
membrane of the roof of a horse's mouth, more 
commonly called bars. Similar ridges occur 
on the hard palate of most mammals. Bicipltal 
ridges. Bee bieipital. Dental ridge a thick ridge of 
epithelium just over the spot where the future dental 
structures are to be formed. Frontal, genital, gluteal 
Interantennal ridge. See the adjectives. Maxillary 
ridge. Same as dental ridge. Mylohyoid ridge. See 
mylohyoid. Neural ridge, a series of enlargements along 
the borders of the medullary plates, from which the dorsal 
spinal nerves originate. More commonly called neural 
crest.- Oblique ridge of the trapezium, of the ulna. 
See oblique.- Palatine, pectlneal, pectoral, ptery- 
gold ridge. See the adjectives. Ridge rib. Seert&i. 
Ridge-roll, a batten with a rounded face, over which 
the sheathing of lead or other metal is bent on the ridges 
and hips of a roof. Also called ridge-batten. Sagittal, 
superciliary ridge. See the adjectives. Temporal 
ridges. See temporal lines (under line*), and cut under 
parietal. 
ridge (rij), r. ; pret. and pp. ridged, ppr. ridging. 
4< ME. ryggen; from the noun: see ridge, .~\ 
. trans. To cover or mark with ridges ; rib. 
Though all thy hairs 
Were bristles ranged like those that ridge the back 
Of chafd wild boars, or raffled porcupines. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 1137. 
A north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with 
mountain : this I see. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxviii. 
Ridged Sleeve, a sleeve worn by women at the middle of 
the seventeenth century, puffed in longitudinal ridges. 
H. intrans. To rise or stretch in ridges. 
The Biscay, roughly ridging eastward, shook 
And almost overwhelm'd her. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
ridge-band (rij'band), n. That part of the har- 
ness of a cart-, wagon-, or gig-horse which goes 
over the saddle on the back, 
ridge-beam (rij'bem), n. In carp., a beam at 
the upper ends of the rafters, below the ridge ; 
a crown-plate. E. H. Knight. 
ridge-bonet (rij'bou), . [< ME. rygge-bone, rig- 
bone, < AS. lirycg-ban (= D. ruggebeen, rugbeen 
= OHG. hruckipein, ruccipeini,MHG. riickebein 
= Sw. ryggben = Dan. rygben), backbone, spine, 
< liri/cg, back, + ban, bone.] The spine or 
backbone. 
So ryde thay of by resoun hi the rygge bonez 
Euenden to the haunche. 
Sir Oawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1344. 
I would fain now see them rolled 
Down a hill, or from a bridge 
Headlong cast, to break their ridge- 
Bones. B. Jonton, Masque of Oberon. 
ridged (rijd), a. [< ridge + -ed?.] 1. Having 
a ridge or back ; having an angular, projecting 
backbone . 
ridicule 
The tinners could summarily lodge in Lydford Gaol 
those who impeded them ; consequently two messengers, 
sent from Plymouth to protect the leat on Koborough 
Down, were set up on a bare ridged horse, with their legs 
tied under his belly, and trotted olf to gaol. 
H. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 443. 
2. In zool., carinate; costate; having ridges 
or carinw on a surface, generally longitudinal 
ones. When the ridges run crosswise, the sur- 
face is said to be transversely ridged. 3. Ris- 
ing in a ridge or ridges ; ridgy. 
The sharp clear twang of the golden chords 
Runs up the ridged sea. . Tennyson, Sea- Fairies. 
ridge-drill (rij'dril), . In agri., a seed-drill 
adapted to sowing seeds upon the ridges of a 
listed field. Compare list*, n., 10, and listhig- 
plow. 
ridge-fillet (rij'fil'et), . 1. In arch., a fillet 
bet ween two depressions, as between two flutes 
of a column. 2. In founding, the runner, or 
principal channel. E. B. Knight. 
ridge-harrow (rij'har'6), . In agri., a harrow 
hinged longitudinally so that it can lap upon 
the sides of a ridge over which it passes. 1C. 
H. Knight. 
ridge-hoe (rij'ho), . A horse-hoe operating 
on the same principle as a ridge-plow. 
ridgel, ridgil (rij 'el, -il), . [Also rig (of which 
ridgel may be a dim. form), rigsie; origin uncer- 
tain; cf. Sc. riglan, rigland, rig-widdie, a nag, 
a horse half-castrated, riggot, an animal half- 
castrated.] A male animal with one testicle 
removed or wanting. Also ridgeling, ridgiing. 
Tityrns, tend my herd, and see them fed, 
To morning pastures, evening waters, led ; 
And 'ware the Libyan ridgU's butting head. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Pastorals, tx. 31. 
Ridgiing or ridgil ... is still used in Tennessee and 
the West, . . . but has been corrupted into riginal, and 
would-be correct people say original. 
Trans. Amer. Pltilol. Ass., XVII. 42. 
ridgelet (rij'let), . [< ridge + -let.'] A little 
ridge. Encyc. Brit., I. 368. 
ridgeling (rij'ling), n. [Also ridgiing; appar. 
< ridgel + -ingZ.J Same as ridgel. 
ridge-piece (rij'pes), . Same as ridge-pole. 
ridge-plate (rip'plat), . Same as ridge-pole. 
ridge-plow (rij'plou), . In agri., a plow hav- 
ing a double mold-board, used to make ridges 
for planting or cultivating certain crops and 
for opening water-furrows. Also called ridging- 
plow. 
ndge-pole (rij'pol), . The board or timber at 
the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are 
fastened. Also called ridge-plate or ridge-piece. 
See cut under roo/.- Ridge-pole pine. Seepinei. 
ridger (rij'er), M. 1. That which makes a ridge 
or ridges. 
A small ridger or subsoiler extending below to form a 
small furrow into which the seed is dropped. 
Sci. Amer., N. S., LXII. 181. 
2. Same as ridge-band. Halliwell. 
ridge-roof (rij'rof ), . A raised or peaked roof. 
ridge-rope (rij'rop), n. 1. Naut. : (a) The cen- 
tral rope of an awning, usually called the back- 
bone. (&) The rope along the side of a ship to 
which an awning is stretched, (c) One of two 
ropes running out on each side of the bowsprit 
for the men to hold on by. 2. A ridge-baud. 
Surselle, a broad and great band or thong of strong 
leather, <Sc., fastned on either side of a thill, and bearing 
upon the pad or saddle of the thill-horse : about London 
it is called the ridge-rope. Cotgrave. 
ridge-stay (rij'sta), . Same as ridge-band. 
Halliwell. 
ridge-tile (rij'til), w. In arch., same as crown- 
tile, 2. 
ridgil, n. See ridgel. 
ridging-grass (rij'ing-gras), . A coarse grass, 
Andropogon (Anatherum) bicornis, of tropical 
America. [West Indies.] 
ridging-plow (rij'ing-plou), n. Same as ridge- 
plow. 
ridgiing (rij'ling), n. Same as ridgel. 
ridgy (rij'i), a. [< ridge + -yi.] Rising in a 
ridge or ridges; ridged. 
Faint, lazy waves o'ercreep the ridgy sand. 
Crabbe, Works. II. 10. 
Scant along the ridgy land 
The beans their new-born ranks expand. 
T. Warton, The First of April. 
ridicule 1 ! (rid'i-kul), a. [< OF. (and P.) ridi- 
cule = Sp. ridiculo = Pg. ridiculo = It. ridicolo, 
< L. ridiculus, laughable, comical, amusing, 
absurd, ridiculous, < ridere, laugh: see rident. 
Cf. ridiculous.] Ridiculous. 
That way (e. g. Mr. Edm. Waller's) of quibling with 
sence will hereafter growe as much out of fashion and be 
as ridicule as quibling with words. 
Aubrey, Lives, Samnel Butler. 
