Rid"ing , n.
1. The act
or state of
one who rides.
2. A festival procession. [Obs.]
When there any riding was in Cheap.
Chaucer.
3. Same as Ride, n., 3. Sir P. Sidney.
4. A district in
charge of an excise officer. [Eng.]
Rid"ing , a.
1. Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor."
Ayliffe.
2. Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
3. Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a
riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day.
Riding clerk.
(a) A clerk who traveled for a commercial house. [Obs. Eng.]
(b) One of the "six
clerks" formerly attached to
the English Court of Chancery. -- Riding
hood. (a)
A hood formerly worn by women when
riding. (b)
A kind of
cloak with a hood. -- Riding master, an instructor in horsemanship. --
Riding rhyme
(Pros.), the meter
of five accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described
in the Canterbury Tales.
Dr. Guest. -- Riding school, a school or place where the art of riding is taught.
Rid"ing (rīd"&ibreve;ng), n. [For thriding, Icel. þriðjungr the third part, fr. þriði third, akin to E. third. See Third.]
One of the three
jurisdictions into which the county of
York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They
are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding. Blackstone.
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