Rid (?),
imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.
[Archaic]
He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted.
Thackeray.
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Rid, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rid ∨ Ridded; p. pr. & vb. n. Ridding.] [OE. ridden, redden, AS. hreddan to deliver, liberate; akin to D. & LG. redden, G. retten, Dan. redde, Sw. radda, and perhaps to Skr. rath to loosen.]
1.
To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of.
[Obs.]
Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
Ps. lxxxii. 4.
2.
To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.
"
Rid all the sea of pirates."
Shak.
In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me.
De Quincey.
3.
To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy.
[Obs.]
I will red evil beasts out of the land.
Lev. xxvi. 6.
Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince!
Shak.
4.
To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish.
[R.] "Willingness
rids way."
Shak.
Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails.
J. Webster.
To be rid of, to be free or delivered from. -- To get rid of, to get deliverance from; to free one's self from.
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