Rid /(?)/

1. imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i. [Archaic]

   He rid to the end of the village, where he alighted.

imp. & p. p. Rid; p. pr. & vb. n. Ridding

1. To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of. [Obs.]

   Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

2. To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of.

   In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me.

3. To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy. [Obs.]

   I will red evil beasts out of the land.

   Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince!

4. To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish. [R.]

   Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails.