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IMG:content-0636.png:[blocks in formation] A. As substantive: *3. Ridiculousne . "This action IMG:content-0637.png:[blocks in formation] riding *ri-dic-u-los-I-ty, s. [Eng. ridiculous; -ity.) 1. Ridiculousne . "Look at the ridiculosity of ladies' dre es behind."Quiver, 1876, p. 701. 2. Something ridiculous; a joke, a comicality. "Your pretty sayings and all your ridiculosities." Bailey: Apoph. of Erasmus, p. 64. laugh.] ri-dic-u-loŭs, a . [Lat. ridiculus , from rideo =to 1. Worthy of or calculated to excite ridicule: laughable and contemptible; ludicrous, absurd. "Finding nothing ridiculous in national peculiarities." -Goldsmith: Polite Learning , ch. xiii. *2. Risible; inclined to laughter. "The heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous smiling."- Shakesp .: Love's Labor's Lost , iii. ri-dic-u-loŭs-lý, adv. [Eng. ridiculous; -ly.] In a ridiculous manner or degree; ludicrously. absurdly. "Too frequently becomes ridiculously earnest in trifles 'or absurdity." -Goldsmith: Polite Learning , ch. xiv. ri-dic-u-loŭs-ne , s . [Eng, ridiculous; -ne .] The quality or state of being ridiculous; absurdity. "The vanity and ridiculousne of this trusting in our riches." Sharp: Sermons, vol. i., ser. 4. rid-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [RIDE, v.] A. As pr . par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Employed for riding on; as, a riding horse. 2. Used by or intended for a rider. "A riding suit."-Shakesp.: Cymbeline, iii. 2. 3. Employed to travel on any occasion; as, a rid ing clerk. [RIDING-CLERK, 1.] C. As substantive: 1. A royal proce ion. (Chaucer: C. Т., 4.375.) 2. A ride or road cut through a wood or pleasure grounds for riding exercise. "We galloped up and down the green ridings for which the forest district is famous."- Field, Dec. 6, 1884. 3. A ride; a district visited by a ride-officer (q.v.). riding-bitts, s. pl. Ship build .: Two strong upright timbers near the bows of a ship, to which the cable is secured; they extend through two decks, are connected by a cro piece, and braced against the strain of the cable by horizontal standards bolted to the deck beams. *riding-clerk, s . 1. A mercantile or commercial traveler. 2. One of the six clerks formerly in chancery. *riding-day, s. A day of hostile incursions or raids on horseback.