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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Monosaccharide \Mon`o*sac"cha*ride\, n. Also -rid \-rid\ .
     [Mono- + saccharide.] (Chem.)
     A simple sugar; any of a number of sugars (including the
     trioses, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, etc.), not decomposable
     into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some,
     a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds
     containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a
     ketone group.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Rid \Rid\,
     imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. [Archaic]
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           He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted.
                                                    --Thackeray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Rid \Rid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rid or Ridded; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Ridding.] [OE. ridden, redden, AS. hreddan to deliver,
     liberate; akin to D. & LG. redden, G. retten, Dan. redde, Sw.
     r["a]dda, and perhaps to Skr. ?rath to loosen.]
     1. To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of. [Obs.]
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              Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand
              of the wicked.                        --Ps. lxxxii.
                                                    4.
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     2. To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.
        ``Rid all the sea of pirates.'' --Shak.
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              In never ridded myself of an overmastering and
              brooding sense of some great calamity traveling
              toward me.                            --De Quincey.
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     3. To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make
        away with; to destroy. [Obs.]
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              I will red evil beasts out of the land. --Lev. xxvi.
                                                    6.
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              Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince!
                                                    --Shak.
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     4. To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish. [R.]
        ``Willingness rids way.'' --Shak.
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              Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves
              were at our tails.                    --J. Webster.
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     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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Rode+(r[=o]d)+({Rid" rel="nofollow">Ride \Ride\, v. i. [imp. Rode (r[=o]d) ({Rid [r[i^]d],
     Ridden({Rid" rel="nofollow">archaic); p. p. Ridden({Rid, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n.
     Riding.] [AS. r[=i]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G.
     reiten, OHG. r[=i]tan, Icel. r[=i][eth]a, Sw. rida, Dan.
     ride; cf. L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word.
     Cf. Road.]
     1. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
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              To-morrow, when ye riden by the way.  --Chaucer.
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              Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop
              after him.                            --Swift.
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     2. To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a
        car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
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              The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not
              by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the
              streets with trains of servants.      --Macaulay.
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     3. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
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              Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     4. To be supported in motion; to rest.
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              Strong as the exletree
              On which heaven rides.                --Shak.
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              On whose foolish honesty
              My practices ride easy!               --Shak.
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     5. To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
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              He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     6. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle;
        as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast.
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     To ride easy (Naut.), to lie at anchor without violent
        pitching or straining at the cables.
  
     To ride hard (Naut.), to pitch violently.
  
     To ride out.
        (a) To go upon a military expedition. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
        (b) To ride in the open air. [Colloq.]
  
     To ride to hounds, to ride behind, and near to, the hounds
        in hunting.
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     Syn: Drive.
  
     Usage: Ride, Drive. Ride originally meant (and is so used
            throughout the English Bible) to be carried on
            horseback or in a vehicle of any kind. At present in
            England, drive is the word applied in most cases to
            progress in a carriage; as, a drive around the park,
            etc.; while ride is appropriated to progress on a
            horse. Johnson seems to sanction this distinction by
            giving ``to travel on horseback'' as the leading sense
            of ride; though he adds ``to travel in a vehicle'' as
            a secondary sense. This latter use of the word still
            occurs to some extent; as, the queen rides to
            Parliament in her coach of state; to ride in an
            omnibus.
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                  ``Will you ride over or drive?'' said Lord
                  Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that
                  morning.                          --W. Black.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Trisaccharide \Tri*sac"cha*ride\, n. Also -rid \-rid\ (Chem.)
     A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three
     simple sugar molecules.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) : [ vera ]


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