Found 2 items, similar to Ridden.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: ridden ride n 1: a journey in a vehicle driven by someone else; “he took the family for a drive in his new car” [syn: drive] 2: a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement [also: rode, ridden] ride v 1: sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions; “She never sat a horse!”; “Did you ever ride a camel?”; “The girl liked to drive the young mare” [syn: sit] 2: be carried or travel on or in a vehicle; “I ride to work in a bus”; “He rides the subway downtown every day” [ant: walk] 3: continue undisturbed and without interference; “Let it ride” 4: move like a floating object; “The moon rode high in the night sky” 5: harass with persistent criticism or carping; “The children teased the new teacher”; “Don't ride me so hard over my failure”; “His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie” [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally] 6: be sustained or supported or borne; “His glasses rode high on his nose”; “The child rode on his mother's hips”; “She rode a wave of popularity”; “The brothers rode to an easy victory on their father's political name” 7: have certain properties when driven; “This car rides smoothly”; “My new truck drives well” [syn: drive] 8: be contingent on; “The outcomes rides on the results of the electin”; “Your grade will depends on your homework” [syn: depend on, devolve on, depend upon, turn on, hinge on , hinge upon] 9: lie moored or anchored; “Ship rides at anchor” 10: sit on and control a vehicle; “He rides his bicycle to work every day”; “She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town” 11: climb up on the body; “Shorts that ride up”; “This skirt keeps riding up my legs” 12: ride over, along, or through; “Travel the highways of America”; “Ride the freeways of California” 13: keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot; “Don't ride the clutch!” 14: copulate with; “The bull was riding the cow” [syn: mount] [also: rode, ridden] ridden See ride
English → English (gcide) Definition: Ridden Ridden \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[=i]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. r[=i]tan, Icel. r[=i][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]