rickle (rikl)

[ May Boreas never thrash your rigs, Nor kick your rickles aff their legs. Burns , Third Epistle to J. Lapraik. 2. A quantity of anything loosely and carele ly put together; a loose or in disc rim i IMG:content-2267.png:[blocks in formation] rictus (rik'tus), n.; pl. rictus. [ Why thow has redyne and raymede, and raun sound the pople, And kyllyde doune his cosyns, kyngys ennoynttyde. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 100. Take you your keen bright sword, And rid me out of my life. The West- Country Damosel's Complaint (Child's Ballads, [II. 384). We thought it safer to rid ourselves out of their hands and the trouble we were brought into, and therefore we patiently layd down the mony. Evelyn, Diary, March 23, 1646. 2. To separate or free from anything superfluous or objectionable; disencumber; clear. Thi fader in fuerse with his fre will Rid me this Rewme out of ronke Enmys. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5343. Rid all the sea of pirates. IMG:content-2268.png:[blocks in formation] We ar in this valay, verayly oure one, Here are no renkes vs to rydde , rele as vus likez. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2246. To rid house, to remove all the furniture from a house. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] rid1 (rid), p. a. [ Surely he was a wicked man; the realm was well rid of him. Latimer , 4th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. I would we were well rid of this knavery. Shak ., T. N., iv. 2. 73. The townesmen remaining presently fraughted our Barge to be rid of our companies. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 219. Thence I rode all-shamed, hating the life He gave me, meaning to be rid of it. To get rid of. See get. Tennyson, Geraint. rid2 (rid). An obsolete or dialectal preterit of ride. rid3 (rid), v. t. A dialectal variant of red3. rid4 (rid), n. A variant of red5. Favorite grounds where the trout make their rids . Report of the Maine Fisheries Commi ion , 1875, p. 12. rid a (rē'da), n. That part of the ihram, or Moslem pilgrim's dre , which is thrown over the left shoulder and knotted at the right side. ridable, rideable (rī'da-bl), a . [ ride + -able .] 1. Capable of being ridden, as a saddle-horse. I rode everything rideable . M. W. Savage , Reuben Medlicott, ii. 3. ( Davies .) 2. Pa able on horseback; capable of being ridden through or over: as, a ridable stream or bridge. For at this very time there was a man that used to trade to Hartlepool weekly, and who had many years known when the water was rideable, and yet he ventured in as I did, and he and his horse were both drowned at the very time when I lay sick. Lister, Autobiog., p. 45. ( Hall i well.)