TO RIDE TO HOUNDS

Definition: TO RIDE TO HOUNDS

TO RIDE TO HOUNDS

1. To ride behind, and near to, the hounds in hunting. 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. ``Will you ride over or drive?'' said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning. --W. Black.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Anagrams: TO RIDE TO HOUNDS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-d-e-h-i-n-o-o-o-r-s-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: outstridden, undistorted.
	-4 letters: dishonored, drouthiest, rhodonites, threnodist, undershoot, understood.
	-5 letters: denturist, dihedrons, disrooted, distorted, intrusted, notorious, nourished, odontoids, outridden, outrooted, outshined, outsnored, outstride, outstrode, rhodonite, thorniest, tournedos, undershot.
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