The Collaborative International Dictionary
Train \Train\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trained; p. pr. & vb. n. Training.] [OF. trahiner, tra["i]ner,F. tra[^i]ner, LL. trahinare, trainare, fr. L. trahere to draw. See Trail.]
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To draw along; to trail; to drag.
In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery.
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To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. [Obs.]
If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side.
--Shak.O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.
--Shak.This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin.
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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.
Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation.
--Milton.The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train.
--Dryden. 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.
He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left.
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(Mining) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
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.
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
--Prov. xxii. 6.The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory.
--Tillotson.
Usage examples of "to train".
I'm sure Otakar will be able to train Alzbeta as easily as Arma's brother can teach her.
His idea of a plan is to train his dog to jump out of trees onto innocent bystanders.
And then when I was plainclothes, and undercover, I had to train myself out of it, all over again.
We can even get you a cadre of Polish-speaking soldiers to train new recruits.
For the first time in what seemed forever, he wasn't engaged in frantic efforts to train native troops, fight barbarian armies, build ships, or simply hike through endless jungle.
However, it will stretch out the resources and allow us time to train up a force.
The Madone was too difficult to train on all the time, but it was a great test of fitness.
Given the amount of money it's costing to train, feed, and house them all, I suggest you make use of them.
We need two years really to train a slave, and get our money's worth out of him or her, but many just aren't ready for that.
And besides, I've found it's just as interesting to wait for the new batch of slaves to be delivered and then choose the one I want to train.
But then a few weeks later he summoned me back to his office to offer me the chance to train with the Rangers.
In the end, he said, it was more realistic to train the dogs not to track anything else.