2 entries under this word
a. 1. Employed to travel on any occasion.
No suffragan bishop shall have more than one riding apparitor. Ayliffe.
Sense 2. Suitable for riding on; as, a riding-horse.
☞ Riding is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, riding-cloak, riding-coat, riding-habit, riding-skirt, riding-whip, and the like.
n. 1. The act of one who is carried upon the back of an animal or in a carriage. 2. A road cut in a wood or through a ground, for the diversion of riding therein. Sidney. 3. A district visited by an officer. [Eng.] 4. [Corrupted from trithing or triding, third.] One of the three intermediate jurisdictions between a shire and a hundred, into which the county of York, in England, is divided, anciently under the government of a reeve. Blackstone.