資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ride \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.

Tie \Tie\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tied}(Obs. {Tight}); p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Tying}.] [OE. ti?en, teyen, AS. t[=i]gan, ti['e]gan,
   fr. te['a]g, te['a]h, a rope; akin to Icel. taug, and AS.
   te['o]n to draw, to pull. See {Tug}, v. t., and cf. {Tow} to
   drag.]
   1. To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind. ``Tie the
      kine to the cart.'' --1 Sam. vi. 7.

            My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake
            not the law of thy mother: bind them continually
            upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
                                                  --Prov. vi.
                                                  20,21.

   2. To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord;
      also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord
      to a tree; to knit; to knot. ``We do not tie this knot
      with an intention to puzzle the argument.'' --Bp. Burnet.

   3. To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.

            In bond of virtuous love together tied. --Fairfax.

   4. To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as
      by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to
      confine.

            Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less
            sweet than a forgiving mind.          --Dryden.

   5. (Mus.) To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved
      line, or slur, drawn over or under them.

   6. To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even
      with.

   {To ride and tie}. See under {Ride}.

   {To tie down}.
      (a) To fasten so as to prevent from rising.
      (b) To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action.

   {To tie up}, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion
      or action.