Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. i.) To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

2. (v. i.) To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like.

3. (v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.

4. (v. i.) To be supported in motion; to rest.

5. (v. i.) To manage a horse, as an equestrian.

6. (v. i.) To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.

7. (v. t.) To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.

8. (v. t.) To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

9. (v. t.) To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

10. (v. t.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments.

11. (n.) The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.

12. (n.) A saddle horse.

13. (n.) A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.