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imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. [Archaic] He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted. Thackeray.

Suitable for riding; as, a ridable horse; a ridable road.

The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out. Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field. Lev. xxiii. 22.

p. p. of Ride.

One who, or that which, rids.

To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.

One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.).

Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle. "Riddling triplets." Tennyson. -- Rid"dling, adv.

To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. Chaucer. Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him. Swift.

A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.

imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride. Chaucer.

Laughing. [R.] Thackeray.

One who, or that which, rides.

Having no rider; as, a riderless horse. H. Kingsley.

s, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys. "The frozen ridges of the Alps." Shak. Part rise crystal wall, or ridge direct. Milton.

a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger. Halliwell.

The backbone. [Obs.] Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.

Same as Ridgelling.

A little ridge.

A half-castrated male animal.