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▪ I. outride, n. rare.|ˈaʊtraɪd|
[f. next.]
1. The act of riding out, a ride out; an excursion.
1740Somerville Hobbinol Ded., Your province is the town; leave me a small outride in the country. 1765Percy Reliques Gloss., Outrake, an out-ride; or expedition.
2. The district of an outrider or commercial traveller. local.
1884Upton-on-Severn Gloss. 1896Warwicksh. Gloss.
3. In the writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins: (see quots.).
1880G. M. Hopkins Let. 22 Dec. (1935) 41 By means of the ‘outrides’ or looped half-feet..I secure a strong effect of double rhythm, of a second movement in the verse besides the primary and essential one. c1883― Poems (1918) 5 Two licences are natural to Sprung Rhythm. The one is rests, as in music... The other is hangers or outrides, that is one, two, or three slack syllables added to a foot and not counting in the nominal scanning. 1934C. Day Lewis Hope for Poetry ii. 10 What Hopkins called ‘outrides’, unstressed syllables occasionally placed before the stressed ones at the beginning of the foot. 1973Studies Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 24 In certain of the poems written in sprung rhythm..‘outrides’ appear to be extensively used, and these Hopkins has taken great pains to indicate... Without the help of these signals, there is little chance of the reader being able to distinguish between an ‘outriding’ and an ordinary foot.
▪ II. outˈride, v.
[out- 14, 15, 18, 17.]
1. intr. and trans. To ride out. Obs. or poet.
1460Lybeaus Disc. 952 Gyffroun hys hors outryt, And was wode out of wyt. 1815Chron. in Ann. Reg. 629 The bravest that ever in battle outrade.
2. a. To outdo in riding, to ride better, faster, or farther than; to leave behind or outstrip by riding.
1530Palsgr. 650/2 Take as swyfte a geldynge as thou canste fynde and I holde the twenty nobles I outryde the. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. i. 36. 1685 Dangerfield Mem. 3 Feb. 21 We..by much out-rode all the Pursuers for the space of an hour Whip and Spur. 1861Thackeray Four Georges (1880) 53 What postilion can outride that pale horseman? 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 243 He tried ineffectually to outride..the furious animal.
b. transf. and fig.
1672Dryden Conq. Granada ii. i. (1725) 40 Like a Tempest that out-rides the Wind. 1791Paine Rights of Man (ed. 4) 115 Their anxiety now was to outride the news lest they should be stopt.
c. To ride out of or beyond.
1903J. L. Weston tr. Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle i. 15 In that one night had he outridden Britain and all that country.
3. Of a ship: To ride out, to survive the violence of (a storm).
1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. v. (1739) 11 Who by patience out-rode the storms of foreign force. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. I. v. (1876) 247 Those perils appear less to us, who know how the vessel outrode them. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 202 By what divine art was it that his ark was so skilfully framed as to out-ride those deluges of trouble?
4. intr. To ride in advance of or beside a carriage as an outrider. (Cent. Dict.)
1964Albertan (Calgary) July 15/6 He's driving two chuckwaggon outfits [and] will probably outride for a couple more.
5. trans. To keep cattle from going beyond (a tract of land) by riding along the boundaries of it. U.S. (? Obs.).
1874J. G. McCoy Hist. Sk. Cattle Trade 375 He does not herd his cattle but designates certain bounds within which the employees permit the stock to range at will. This manner of holding stock is termed ‘out riding’ the country. |