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TRAIN, verb transitive [Latin traho, to draw?] 1. To draw along. In hollow cube he train'd His devilish enginery. 2. Top draw; to entice; to allure. If but twelve French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side. 3. To draw by artifice or stratagem. O train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. 4. To draw from act to act by persuasion or promise. We did train him on. 5. To exercise; to discipline; to teach and form by practice; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms and to tactics. Abram armed his trained servants. Genesis 14:14. The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train 6. To break, tame and accustom to draw; as oxen. 7. In gardening, to lead or direct and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape by growth, lopping or pruning; as, to train young trees. 8. In mining, to trace a lode or any mineral appearance to its head. To train or 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. Proverbs 22:6. The first christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. TRAIN, noun Artifice; stratagem of enticement. Now to my charms, And to my wily trains. 1. Something drawn along behind, the end of a gown, etc.; as the train of a gown or robe. 2. The tail of a fowl. The train steers their flight, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of a ship. 3. A retinue; a number of followers or attendants. My train are men of choice and rarest parts. The king; s daughter with a lovely train 4. A series; a consecution or succession of connected things. Rivers now stream and draw their humid train Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order. --The train of ills our love would draw behind it. 5. Process; regular method; course. Things are now in a train for settlement. If things were once in this train--our duty would take root in our nature. 6. A company in order; a procession. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night. 7. The number of beats which a watch makes in any certain time. 8. A line of gunpowder, laid to lead fire to a charge, or to a quantity intended for execution. TRAIN of artillery, any number of cannon and mortars accompanying an army.