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RI'DDLINGLY, adv. In the manner of a riddle § 
secretly. 
Though like the pestilence and old-fashion’d love, 
Riddlingly it catch men, and doth remove 
Never, till it be starv’d out, yet their state 
Is poor. Donne . 
To RIDE, v. n. preter. rid or rode; part, rid or ridden. 
[juban, Saxon; rijden, Dutch.] To travel on horseback. 
Bratus and Cassius 
Are rid, like madmen, through the gates of Rome. 
Shakspearc. 
Were you but riding forth to air yourself, 
Such parting were too petty. Shakspeare. 
Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ? Num r 
bers . 
Through storms of smoke, and adverse fire he rides. 
While every shot is level I'd at Ms sides. Smith • 
Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after 
him. Swift. —To travel in a vehicle; to be borne, not to 
walk.— -Infected be the air whereon they ride. Shakspeare. 
—Upon this chaos rid the distressed ark, that bore the 
small remains of mankind. Burnet. —To be supported in 
motion. 
As venerable Nestor, hatch’d in silver. 
Should with a bond of air, strong as the axle-tree. 
On which heaven rides, knit all the Grecian ears 
To his experienc’d tongue. Shakspeare. 
To manage an horse. 
Skill to ride seems a science, 
Proper to gentle blood; some others feign, 
To manage steeds, as did this vaunter; but in vain. 
Spenser. 
The horses I saw well chosen, ridden, and furnished. Shak¬ 
speare . 
Inspir’d by love, wTsose business is to please. 
He rode , he fenc’d, he mov’d with graceful ease. Dry den. 
To be on the water. 
On the western coast 
Ridetk a puissant army. Shakspeare. 
The sea was grown so rough, that the admiral was not able 
longerto ride it out with his gallies; but was enforced to slip 
his anchors, and run his gallies on the ground. Knolles.- — 
They were then in a place to be aided by their ships, which 
rode near in Edinburgh Frith. Hayward. 
Waiting with his royal fleet did ride. 
And willing winds to their low’r’d sails deny’d. Dry den. 
Men once walk’d where ships at anchor ride . Dry den. 
Now on their coasts our conquering navy rides. 
Way-lays their merchants, and their land besets. Dry den. 
To be supported by something subservient. 
A credulous father, and a brother noble, 
Whose nature is so far from doing harms. 
That he suspects none; on whose foolish honesty 
My practices rid easy. Shakspeare. 
To RIDE, v. a. To sit on so as to be "carried.-—-They 
ride the air in whirlwind. Milton .—-To manage insolently 
at will.-—Humility does nol F make us servile or insensible, 
nor oblige us to be ridden at the pleasure of every coxcomb. 
Collier. 
RIDE, s. A saddle-horse. Norfolk. Grose.-— An ex¬ 
cursion in a vehicle, or on horseback: as, to take a ride.—-A 
road cut in a wood, or through grounds, for the purpose of 
using theffliversion of riding therein; a riding. 
RIDE, a village of England, in the Isle of Wight, situated 
on an eminence opposite Portsmouth, and commanding a 
fine view of Spithead. This placepossesses many advantages 
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above Cowes, as the beach is composed of a beautiful sand, 
and so gently sloping, that at low water a boat cannot 
approach within 100 yards of the quay. In the vicinity are 
a number of pleasant houses, frequented by respectable 
families during the summer season 5 9 miles north-east of 
Newport. 
RIDEAU, in Fortification, a small elevation of earth, 
extending itself lengthways on a plain; serving to cover a 
camp, or give an advantage to a post. 
The word, in its original French, signifies a curtain or 
cover , formed from the Latin ridellum. Borel derives it 
from ridere. 
A Rideau is also convenient for those who would besiege 
a place at a near distance, and to secure the workmen in their 
approaches to the foot of a fortress. 
Rideau is sometimes also used for a trench, the earth of 
which is thrown up on its side, to serve as a parapet for 
covering the men. 
RIDEAU RIVER, a river of North America, in Canada, 
which runs into the Utawas river. It falls in one sheet over 
a perpendicular rock, 40 feet high, and has the appearance 
of a curtain; from which circumstance it derives its 
name. Many Americans are settled on this river, and have 
thriving plantations, as the soil is excellent. Cultivation is 
indeed rapidly spreading, from the vicinity of this spot to 
Montreal. 
RI'DER, s. [Sax. pi&epe.] One who is carried on a 
horse or in a vehicle. 
The strong camel and the generous horse. 
Restrain’d and aw’d by man’s inferiour force. 
Do to the rider's will their rage submit, 
And answer to the spur, and own the bit. Prior. 
One who manages or breaks horses.—As .horsesare bred 
better; and to that end riders dearly hired. Shakspeare.— 
An inserted leaf; an additional clause, as to a bill passing 
through parliament.-—They tacked the following rider to it. 
Brand. 
RIDER, a village of Arabia, in the province of Hadra- 
maut. 
RIDGE, s. [hpigg, Saxon; rig, Danish; rugge, Dutch; 
the back.] The top of the back. 
He thought it was no time to stay ; 
But in a trice advanc’d the knight 
Upon the bare ridge bolt upright. Hudibras. 
The rough top of any thing, resembling the vertebrae of 
the back. 
As when a vulture on Imaus bred, 
Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds. 
Dislodges from a region scarce of prey. Milton . 
A steep protuberance.—The ground thrown up by the plough. 
—Thou visitest the earth j thou waterest the ridges thereof 
abundantly; thou settlest the furrows thereof. Ps. lxv. 10. 
—The top of the roof rising to an acute angle.— Ridge tiles 
or roof tiles, being in length thirteen inches, and made cir¬ 
cular breadthways like an half cylinder, whose diameter is 
about ten inches or more, and about half an inch and half a 
quarter in thickness, are laid upon the upper part or ridge of 
the roof, and also on the hips. Moxon.—Ridges of a 
horse’s mouth are wrinkles or risings of the flesh in the roof 
of the mouth, running across from one side of the jaw to the 
other like fleshy ridges, with interjacent furrows or sinking 
cavities. Farrier's Diet. 
To RIDGE, v. a. To form a ridge. 
Thou from heaven 
Feign’dst at thy birth was given thee in thy hair. 
Where strengh can least abide, though all thy hairs 
Were bristles rang’d like those that ridge the back 
Of chaf’d wild boars, or ruffl’d porcupines. Milton. 
To wrinkle. 
An eye 
As fix’d as marble, with a forehead ridg'd 
And furrow’d into storms. Cowper. 
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