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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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   Training, n. The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education.
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   Fan training (Hort.), the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training (Hort.), the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall spread out laterally in a horizontal direction. -- Training college. See Normal school, under Normal, a. -- Training day, a day on which a military company assembles for drill or parade. [U. S.] -- Training ship, a vessel on board of which boys are trained as sailors.
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   Syn. -- See Education.
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