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ormerly under the government of reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding. Blackstone.

By way of derision or mockery.

Proudly. [Obs.]

A riding. See Trithing.

f training in which some special art is taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the Academy of Music. Academy figure (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size, in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.

s, to air a room. It were good wisdom . . . that the jail were aired. Bacon. Were you but riding forth to air yourself. Shak.

A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. "The weather being too hot for the apron." Hughes.

Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.

The use of a bicycle; the act or practice of riding a bicycle.

The art of riding a bicycle.

To put boots on, esp. for riding. Coated and booted for it. B. Jonson.

Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

ch is bent to a bridle. See 4, above. -- Bridle hand, the hand which holds the bridle in riding; the left hand. -- Bridle path, Bridle way, a path or way for saddle horses and pack horses, as distinguished from a road for vehicles. -- Bridle port (Naut.), a porthole or opening in the bow through which hawsers, moori…

Hence, any riding horse. [Jocose] Sir W. Scott.

To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2. The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle. W. E. Norris.

- Buckler thorn, a plant with seed vessels shaped like a buckler. See Christ's thorn. -- Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.

A large ruminant used in Asia and Africa for carrying burdens and for riding. The camel is remarkable for its ability to go a long time without drinking. Its hoofs are small, and situated at the extremities of the toes, and the weight of the animal rests on the callous. The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) has one bunch…

A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.

bell-shaped flowers. -- Canterbury gallop, a gentle gallop such as was used by pilgrims riding, to Canterbury; a canter. -- Canterbury table, one of the tales which Chaucer puts into the mouths of certain pilgrims to Canterbury. Hence, any tale told by travelers pass away the time.