Ride, v. t. 1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air
In whirlwind. Milton.
2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. Swift.
3. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
Tue only men that safe can ride
Mine errands on the Scottish side. Sir W. Scott.
4. (Surg.) To overlap (each other); — said of bones or fractured fragments.
To ride a hobby, to have some favorite occupation or subject of talk. — To ride and tie, to take turn with another in labor and rest; — from the expedient adopted by two persons with one horse, one of whom rides the animal a certain distance, and then ties him for the use of the other, who is coming up on foot. Fielding. — To ride down. (a) To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy. (b) (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail. — To ride out(Naut.), to keep safe afloat during (a storm) while riding at anchor or when hove to on the open sea; as, to ride out the gale.