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To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down. The carter overridden with [i. e., by] his cart. Chaucer.

To stride over or beyond.

A ternary compound of oxygen and chlorine; as, plumbic oxychloride.

A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule.

A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.

The outer layer of bark.

The Muses.

A double chloride of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinochloric acid.

A chloride containing more than one atom of chlorine in the molecule.

One who rides over a post road to carry the mails. Bancroft.

lf in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others. Those that walk in pride he is able to abase. Dan. iv. 37. Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. Franklin.

Full of pride; haughty. Tennyson. -- Pride"ful*ly, adv. -- Pride"ful-ness, n.

Without pride. Chaucer.

Having four teeth; as, a quadridentate leaf.

One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the riding master.

Of or pertaining to a rural dean; as, a ruridecanal district; the ruridecanal intellect. [R.]

A fluosilicate; a salt of silicofluoric acid.

Any one of a series of double fluorides of tin (stannum) and some other element.

A starfish, or brittle star.

n a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining shield Is graved, and strides along the liquid field. Dryden.