 8 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rid
verb: relieve from; "Rid the the house of pests" [syn: {free}, {disembarrass}]
[also: {ridding}, {ridded}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Monosaccharide \Mon'o*sac"cha*ride\, noun Also -rid \-rid\ .
[Mono- + saccharide.] (Chem.)
A simple sugar; any of a number of sugars (including the
trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable
into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some,
a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds
containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a
ketone group.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rid \Rid\,
imp. & p. p. of {Ride}, verb (used without an object) [Archaic]
He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted.
--Thackeray.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rid \Rid\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Rid} or {Ridded}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Ridding}.] [OE. ridden, redden, AS. hreddan to deliver,
liberate; akin to D. & LG. redden, G. retten, Dan. redde, Sw.
r["a]dda, and perhaps to Skr. ?rath to loosen.]
1. To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of. [Obs.]
Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand
of the wicked. --Ps. lxxxii.
4.
2. To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.
''Rid all the sea of pirates.'' --Shak.
In never ridded myself of an overmastering and
brooding sense of some great calamity traveling
toward me. --De Quincey.
3. To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make
away with; to destroy. [Obs.]
I will red evil beasts out of the land. --Lev. xxvi.
6.
Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince!
--Shak.
4. To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish. [R.]
''Willingness rids way.'' --Shak.
Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves
were at our tails. --J. Webster.
{To be rid of}, to be free or delivered from.
{To get rid of}, to get deliverance from; to free one's self
from.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ride \Ride\, verb (used without an object) [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.
To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. --Chaucer.
Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop
after him. --Swift.
2. To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a
car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not
by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the
streets with trains of servants. --Macaulay.
3. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.
--Dryden.
4. To be supported in motion; to rest.
Strong as the exletree
On which heaven rides. --Shak.
On whose foolish honesty
My practices ride easy! --Shak.
5. To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.
--Dryden.
6. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle;
as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
{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.
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.
''Will you ride over or drive?'' said Lord
Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that
morning. --W. Black.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trisaccharide \Tri*sac"cha*ride\, noun Also -rid \-rid\ (Chem.)
A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three
simple sugar molecules.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
113 Moby Thesaurus words for "rid":
abandon, abjure, abolish, abstract, assassinate, cast, cast aside,
cast away, cast off, cast out, cede, chuck, clear, clear away,
clear out, clear the decks, cut off, cut out, cut short, deep-six,
deport, discard, disgorge, dispel, dispense with, dispose of,
ditch, do away with, do without, drop, dump, eighty-six, eject,
elide, eliminate, end, eradicate, escape, exile, expatriate, expel,
exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish, finish off, fling off,
forgo, forswear, free, get along without, get clear of,
get free of, get out of, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of,
give away, give up, have done with, jettison, jilt, kill,
kiss good-bye, liberate, liquidate, lose, make a sacrifice,
make away with, murder, nip, outlaw, part with, pick out, purge,
put paid to, quitclaim, recant, reject, release, relinquish,
remove, render up, renounce, resign, retract, root out, root up,
sacrifice, shake off, shoo, slaughter, slough, spare, strike off,
strike out, surrender, swear off, take off, throw away, throw off,
throw out, throw over, throw overboard, throw up, to,
toss overboard, unburden, uproot, vacate, waive, weed out, yield
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
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