Ride, v. t.
 1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.
 [They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air
 In whirlwind.   --Milton.
 2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
    The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.   --Swift.
 3. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
 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.