Vocabulary : Riddle to Riderless

Riddle : A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand. ;; A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it. ;; To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel. ;; To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot. ;; Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling. ;; To explain; to solve; to unriddle. ;; To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
Riddled : of Riddle
Riddler : One who riddles (grain, sand, etc.). ;; One who speaks in, or propounds, riddles.
Riddling : of Riddle ;; Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle.
Ride : To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. ;; To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below. ;; To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie. ;; To be supported in motion; to rest. ;; To manage a horse, as an equestrian. ;; To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast. ;; To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle. ;; To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. ;; To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. ;; To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments. ;; The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle. ;; A saddle horse. ;; A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
Rideau : A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.
Riden : imp. pl. & p. p. of Ride.
Rident : Laughing.
Rider : One who, or that which, rides. ;; Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler. ;; One who breaks or manages a horse. ;; An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed. ;; A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper. ;; A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it. ;; Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it. ;; An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame. ;; The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold. ;; A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard. ;; A robber.
Riderless : Having no rider; as, a riderless horse.
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