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Meaning Of Train
v. t.
To draw along; to trail; to drag.
v. t.
To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract
by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its
head.
v. i.
To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a
military company.
v. i.
To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any
physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
v.
That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or
enticement; allurement.
v.
Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a
trap for an animal; a snare.
v.
That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after,
something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.
v.
That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
v.
The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
v.
The tail of a bird.
v.
A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a
suite.
v.
A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.
v.
Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a
train for settlement.
v.
The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
v.
A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or
the like.
v.
A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
v.
A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation
of merchandise, wood, and the like.