Word Meanings - RIDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper. 6. Etym: (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rides. 2. Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler. 3. One who

Additional info about word: RIDER

A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper. 6. Etym: (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rides. 2. Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler. 3. One who breaks or manages a horse. Shak. 4. An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed. After the third reading, a foolish man stood up to propose a rider. Macaulay. This was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer. A. S. Hardy.

Related words: (words related to RIDER)

• COMMERCIALLY
  In a commercial manner.
• ADDUCT
  To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• ADDUCTION
  The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its (more info) 1. The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• ADDITIVE
  Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
• ADDOOM
  To adjudge. Spenser.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• ADDUCIBLE
  Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.
• COMMERCIAL
  Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• ADDUCE
  To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PROBLEMATIC; PROBLEMATICAL
  Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful. -- Prob`lem*at"ic*al*ly, adv. Diligent inquiries into remote and problematical guilt leave a gate wide open to . . . informers. Swift.
• ADDITIONALLY
  By way of addition.
• ADDERWORT
  The common bistort or snakeweed .
• ADDITAMENT
  An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.
• HADDOCK
  A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine
• SADDER
  See SADDA
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• RADDE
  imp. of Read, Rede. Chaucer.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• SPADDLE
  A little spade.
• WADDYWOOD
  An Australian tree ; also, its wood, used in making waddies.
• SWADDLE
  Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.
• PADDLER
  One who, or that which, paddles.
• GADDISH
  Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. "Gaddishness and folly." Abp. Leighton.
• UNSADDLE
  1. To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse. 2. To throw from the saddle; to unhorse.