Noah Webster
Riding
RI'DING, participle present tense [from ride.]
1. Passing or traveling on a beast or in a vehicle; floating.
2. adjective Employed to travel on any occasion.
No suffragan bishop shall have more than one riding apparitor.
RI'DING, noun
1. A road cut in a wood or through a ground, for the diversion of riding therein.
2. [corrupted from trithing, third.] One of the three intermediate jurisdictions between a three and a hundred, into which the county of York, in England, is divided, anciently under the government of a reeve.