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   Accommodation , n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]
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   The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. “The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.” 
   Sir M. Hale.
   
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   Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
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   Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. “To come to terms of accommodation.” 
   Macaulay.
   
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   The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
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   Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.
   Paley.
   
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   (Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note.
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   Accommodation bill, or note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. -- Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. -- Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.
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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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   To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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   In hollow cube
   Training his devilish enginery.
   Milton.
   
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   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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   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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   To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
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   (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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   (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.
   To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
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   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.]
    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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   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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   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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   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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   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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   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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   The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
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   A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
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   A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad; -- called also railroad train.
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   A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
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   (Rolling Mill) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
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   (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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