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.
Ride, n. 1. The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a
vehicle.