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verb

Rid v. t. (past & past part. rid; pres. part. ridding)

To save; to rescue; to deliver; with out of. (Obs.) "Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked."

To free; to clear; to disencumber; followed by of. "Rid all the sea of pirates." "In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me."

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!"

To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish. (R.) "Willingness rids way." "Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails."

To be rid of, to be free or delivered from.

To get rid of, to get deliverance from; to free one's self from.

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— A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second • Charles James Fox

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... settle with their landlords not oftener than twice every twelvemonth, and who are at least a year entered on possession. By fixing the qualification thus high, and rejecting the monthly or weekly rent-payer, the country would get rid of at least nineteen-twentieths of the dangerous classes,—the agricultural labourers, who wander about from parish to parish, some six or eight months in one locality, and some ten or twelve in another; the ignorant ...

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