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A chance, opportunity, privilege, or advantage; specifically, an opportunity of riding; a lift. [Scotch] We bargained with the driver to give us a cast to the next stage. Smollett. If we had the cast o' a cart to bring it. Sir W. Scott.

An usher to a riding master.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]

A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [Slang.]

A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.

The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.

The act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Ps. ii. 4. Saderision called. Milton.

; -- also applied to a sponge with stout branches. [Prov. Eng., Irish & Scot.] -- Devil's riding-horse (Zoöl.), the American mantis (Mantis Carolina). -- The Devil's tattoo, a drumming with the fingers or feet. "Jack played the Devil's tattoo on the door with his boot heels." F. Hardman (Blackw. Mag.). -- Devil worsh…

Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue. An equestrian lady appeared upon the plains. Spectator.

The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback; horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.

Mounted on, or sitting upon, a horse; riding on horseback.

A riding, or the act of riding, on horseback; horsemanship. The pretender to equitation mounted. W. Irving.

coil, a flat coil of rope with the end in the center and the turns lying against, without riding over, each other. -- Flemish eye (Naut.), an eye formed at the end of a rope by dividing the strands and lying them over each other. -- Flemish horse (Naut.), an additional footrope at the end of a yard.…

ater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward. Knight. -- Floating heart (Bot.), a small aquatic plant (Limnanthemum lacunosum) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water of American ponds. -- Floating island, a dish for dessert, consisting of…

High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

ager; pinched and grim. "The gaunt mastiff." Pope. A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. Nichols.

To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword. Milton. That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride. Spenser.

; dress; hence, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy. Shak. There are, among the states, several of Venus, in different habits. Addison.

A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony. Chaucer.

A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.]