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Ride out   /raɪd aʊt/   Listen
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Ride  v. t.  (past rode, archaic rid; past part. ridden, archaic rid; pres. part. riding)  
1.
To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle. "(They) rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind."
2.
To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. "The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers."
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."
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.
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.


Ride  v. i.  (past rode, archaic rid; past part. ridden, archaic rid; pres. part. riding)  
1.
To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. "To-morrow, when ye riden by the way." "Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him."
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."
3.
To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie. "Men once walked where ships at anchor ride."
4.
To be supported in motion; to rest. "Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides." "On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy!"
5.
To manage a horse, as an equestrian. "He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease."
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.)
(b)
To ride in the open air. (Colloq.)
To ride to hounds, to ride behind, and near to, the hounds in hunting.
Synonyms: Drive. 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."





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"Ride out" Quotes from Famous Books



... not rode out much yet, but have at last got new tires on the carriage wheels and perhaps shall ride out soon. ...
— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln
... traversed by the vast procession of the aqueducts, invited one to meditate, and cry, and be a poet. And sometimes—we know it from the sonnets to his horse Fido, who had, Alfieri tells us, carried the beloved burden of his lady—Alfieri did not ride out alone. One of the horses of the villa Strozzi was saddled for the Countess of Albany; and this strange pair of platonic lovers rode forth together among the ruins, the wife of Charles Edward listening, with something more than mere abstract ...
— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
... that are gone thither before you; and there you shall with joy receive, even every one that follows into the holy place after you. There also shall you be clothed with glory and majesty, and put into an equipage fit to ride out with the King of Glory. When he shall come with sound of trumpet in the clouds, as upon the wings of the wind, you shall come with him; and when he shall sit upon the throne of judgment; you shall sit by him; yea, and when he shall pass sentence upon all the workers of iniquity, let them be angels ...
— The Pilgrim's Progress - From this world to that which is to come. • John Bunyan
... the idea of following their trail in this immediate locality, so calling my men together, I told them that we would ride out for about five miles and make a complete circuit about the place, and in this way we would certainly find the trail on which they had moved out. While making the circuit we discovered the tracks of twelve animals—four mules and eight horses—in the edge of some sand-hills, and from this point ...
— The Life of Hon. William F. Cody - Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide • William F. Cody
... "as soon as they have dressed themselves they ride out into the court (or field), and there fight until they cut each other to pieces. This is their pastime, but when meal-time approaches they remount their steeds and return to drink in ...
— The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson • Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson


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