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Train (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trained (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Training.] [OF. trahiner, traïner,F. traîner, LL. trahinare, trainare, fr. L. trahere to draw. See Trail.]
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1. To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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In hollow cube
Training his devilish enginery. Milton.
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2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.]
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If but a dozen French
Were there in arms, they would be as a call
To train ten thousand English to their side. Shak.
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O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. Shak.
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This feast, I'll gage my life,
Is but a plot to train you to your ruin. Ford.
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3. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, “to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.”
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Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation. Milton.
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The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. Dryden.
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4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
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5. (Hort.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, “to train young trees”.
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He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left. Jeffrey.
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6. (Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
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To train a gun (Mil. & Naut.), to point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. Totten. -- To train, or To train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up.
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Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov. xxii. 6.
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The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. Tillotson.
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Train, v. i.
1. To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
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2. To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, “to train for a boat race”.
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Train, n. [F. train, OF. traïn, trahin; cf. (for some of the senses) F. traine. See Train, v.]
1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] “Now to my charms, and to my wily trains.” Milton.
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2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. Halliwell.
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With cunning trains him to entrap un wares. Spenser.
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3. That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically : --
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(a) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
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(b) (Mil.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
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(c) The tail of a bird. “The train steers their flights, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship.” Ray.
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4. A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
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The king's daughter with a lovely train. Addison.
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My train are men of choice and rarest parts. Shak.
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5. A consecution or succession of connected things; a series. “A train of happy sentiments.” I. Watts.
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The train of ills our love would draw behind it. Addison.
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Rivers now
Stream and perpetual draw their humid train. Milton.
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Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order. Locke.
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6. Regular method; process; course; order; as, “things now in a train for settlement”.
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If things were once in this train, . . . our duty would take root in our nature. Swift.
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7. The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
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8. A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
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9. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad; -- called also railroad train.
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10. A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
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11. (Rolling Mill) A roll train; as, “a 12-inch train”.
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12. (Mil.) The aggregation of men, animals, and vehicles which accompany an army or one of its subdivisions, and transport its baggage, ammunition, supplies, and reserve materials of all kinds.
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Roll train, or Train of rolls (Rolling Mill), a set of plain or grooved rolls for rolling metal into various forms by a series of consecutive operations. -- Train mile (Railroads), a unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being one of the total number of miles run by all the trains of a road, or system of roads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure; -- called also mile run. -- Train of artillery, any number of cannon, mortars, etc., with the attendants and carriages which follow them into the field. Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.). -- Train of mechanism, a series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that which drives it, and driver to that which follows it. -- Train road, a slight railway for small cars, -- used for construction, or in mining. -- Train tackle (Naut.), a tackle for running guns in and out.
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Syn. -- Cars. -- Train, Cars. At one time “train” meaning railroad train was also referred to in the U. S. by the phrase “the cars”. In the 1913 dictionary the usage was described thus: “Train is the word universally used in England with reference to railroad traveling; as, “I came in the morning train”. In the United States, the phrase the cars has been extensively introduced in the room of train; as, “the cars are late; I came in the cars”. The English expression is obviously more appropriate, and is prevailing more and more among Americans, to the exclusion of the cars.”
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