tamiser (R.); tantarer (R.); tarabuster; tâter (also tâter de la chair or la sauce); têter; thermométriser; tirer à la cordelle, au blanc, au naturel, sa lance, son plaisir, du nerf, une venue (R.); tomber, à la renverse, and sur le dos; toucher (la Fontaine); tracasser; trafarcier; travailler (also travailler à la vigne or du cul); trousser (Béranger). User. Vendanger; Venir (en); venir à l'abordage, au choc; en venir au fait, or aux prises; venir la; ventouser; ventrouiller; verger; verminer (R.); vervignoler (R.); vétiller (R.); vitœuvrer; voir. Ziguer.
c. 1520. Mayd Emlyn [Hazlitt, Pop. Poet., iv. 96]. And bycause she loued rydynge, At the stewes was her abydynge.
[. . .]. MS. [Bodleian, 548]. The hares haveth no seson of hure love, that as I sayde is clepid rydyng-tyme.
d. 1529. Skelton, Bowge of Courte, 400. I let her to hyre, that men maye on her ryde.
c. 1542. D. Lyndsay, On Jas. V. his Three Mistresses. Ryd not on your Olifauntes, For hurting of thy Geir.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Baiarda, a common, filthie, ouer-ridden whore.
1599. Shakspeare, Henry V., iii. 7, 60. They that ride so and ride not warily.
1607. Webster and Dekker, Westward Hoe, ii. 2. You know gentlewomen used to come to lords' chambers, and not lords to the gentlewomen's: I'd not have her think you are such a rank rider.
1611. Chapman, May-Day, i. 1. I have heard of wenches that have been won with singing and dancing, and some with riding, but never heard of any that was won with tumbling in my life.
c. 1618-19. Fletcher, Mad Lover, iv. 5. He rides like a nightmare, all ages, all conditions. Ibid., 1637 [?], Elder Brother, iv. 4. He'll ride you the better, Lily.
c. 1620-50. Percy Folio MS., 200, 'Lye Alone.' If dreames be true, then Ride I can: I lacke nothing but a man, for tis onlye hee can ease my moane.
1621. Burton, Anat. Melan., III. III. i. 2. The adulterer sleeping now was riding on his master's saddle.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. iii. If you find any . . . females worth the pains . . . get up, ride upon them.
1656. Fletcher, Martiall, xi. 105. The Phrygian Boyes in secret spent their seed As oft as Hector's wife rid on his steed.
1656. Muses Recr. [Hotten], 74. A smooth and gentle hand keeps women more in awe of due command Than if we set a ganneril on their Docks, Ride them with bits, or on their Geer set locks.
1692. Dryden, Juvenal, 'Tenth Satire' (Ed. 3, 1702, p. 218). How many Boys that Pedagogue can ride.
17[?]. Old Scots' Song, 'Heigh for Bread and Cream.' She poppit into bed, And I popp't in beside her; She lifted up her leg, And I began to ride her.
1772. Bridges, Homer Burlesque, 127. More than nine long tedious years Paris has rode my brother's gear.
1786. Burns, The Inventory. Frae this time forth I do declare, I'se ne'er ride horse nor hizzie mair.
c. 1796. Morris, Plenipotentiary, 13. She had been well rid.
b. 1796. Old Scots' Song, 'Ye'se get a Hole to Hide it in.' [Farmer, Merry Songs and Ballads (1897), iv. 269] O haud it in your hand, sir, Till I get up my claes, Now ride me, as you'd ride for life.
2. (old).—To rob on the high-*way.
1605. London Prodigal, v. 1. It is well known I might have rid out a hundred times if I would
Phrases.—To ride and tie see quot. 1742); to ride the fringes (see quot. c. 1787); to ride as if fetching the mid-*wife = to go post haste; to ride out = to adopt the profession of arms. See Back; Black donkey; Bodkin; Brose; Cowlstaff; Grub;
