RI'DING, ppr. from ride.
1. Passing or traveling on a beast or in a vehicle floating.
2. a. Employed to travel on any occasion.
No suffragan bishop shall have more than one riding apparitor.
RI'DING, n.
1. A road cut in a wood or through a ground, for the diversion of riding therein.
2. corrupted from trithing, third. One of the three intermediate jurisdictions between a three and a hundred, into which the county of York, in England, is divided, anciently under the government of a reeve.
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