train, trayne

t. & i. [Old French trahiner, trainer; Fr. trainer =to drag, to draw, to trail, from O. Fr. trahin, train =a train of men, from Low. Lat. trahino = to drag; extended from Lat. traho to draw; Ital. train are.] IMG:content-1306.png:[blocks in formation] train *2. To draw, to entice, to allure; to attract by persuasion, promise, stratagem, artifice, or the like. "My chiefe companions who me I held most deare (Whose companie had thither trained me)." Gas coigne: Voyages into Holland (an. 1572).?. To bring up, to educate, to teach; to rear and instruct. "You have trained me like a peasant."- Shakesp.: As You Like It, i. 1. 4. To form to any practice by exercise; to discipline, to drill; to practice and make perfect in any exercise. "Abram armed his trained servants born in his house, and pursued."- Genesis xiv. 14. 5. To break, tame, and render docile; to render able to perform certain feats; as, to train dogs. 6. To render fit and capable of undergoing some unusual feat of exertion by proper regimen and exercise; to increase the powers of endurance of, especially as a preparative to some contest. II. Technically : 1. Hort.: To lead or direct and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape by growth and lopping or pruning. "With pleasure more than ev'n their fruits afford; Which, save himself who trains them, none can feel." Cowper: Task , iii. 411. 2. Mining: To trace, as a lode or vein, to its head. B. Intransitive: 1. To travel by train. [DETRAIN, ENTRAIN.] 2. To go into or be in training for some feat, con test, competition, or profe ion. To train a gun: Mil .: To point it at some object, either before or abaft the beam, that is, not directly transverse to a ve el's side. "The electrician proposes to train and fire nearly a dozen guns at once, if there should be so many, and to light up the circumjacent sea."- London Daily Telegraph. train, *trayn, *trayne, *treine, s . [Fr. train = a great man's retinue, the train or hinder part of a beast; traine =a sled, a sledge, a drag-net; O. Fr. trahin , train =a train of men.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. A plot. "So that I fele in conclusion, With her traines that they woll me shend." Chaucer: The Floure of Courtesie. 2. A number of body attendants or followers; a retinue. "My train are men of choice and rarest parts." Shakesp.: Lear , i. 4. 3. A consecution or series of persons or things in order. "Though 'tis a train of stars, that, rolling on, Rise in their turn, and in the zodiac run." IMG:content-1307.png:[blocks in formation] March by us." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. II., iv. 2. *8. Series, consecution, order. "Pa ing in train , one going and another coming, without intermi ion." -Locke: Human Underst., bk. ii., ch. vii. 9. State of procedure; regular method; course, progre , proce . "If things were once in this train , if virtue were established as nece ary to reputation, and vice not only loaded with infamy, but made the infallible ruin of ail men's pretensions, our duty would take root in our nature. Swift . 10. That which is drawn or dragged along or after, as *(1) The hinder part of a beast. ( Cotgrave .) (2) That part of a gown, robe, or the like which trails behind the wearer. "Trains are, it is true, more worn than they used to be, but are by no means the nece ary adjunct of an evening toilette." London Daily Telegraph. *(3) The tail of a comet, meteor, or the like. "Stars with trains of fire." -Shakesp.: Hamlet , i. 1. *(4) The tail of a bird. "The train steers their flight, and turns their bodies like the rudder of a ship."-Ray: On the Creation. sin, ag; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia *(5) The rear part of an army. "Followed couertly the hynder trayne of the Scottes, who had horses so charged with baggage, yt they might scant go any gret pace." -Berners: Froi art; Chronycle, vol. i., ch. lxxvi. (6) A peculiar kind of sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, . (Fr. traineau .) 11. A trap for an animal. (Prov.) "The practice begins of crafty men upon the simple and good; these easily follow and are caught, while the others lay trains and pursue a game."-Temple. 12. Something tied to a lure to entice a hawk. ( Prov .) 13. A continuous line or series of carriages on a railway coupled together with the engine. "Brakes are furnished capable of bringing the train to a standstill in a distance of sixteen yards."- London Daily Telegraph . IMG:content-1309.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Ord . Lang .: One who holds up a train; one who holds up or supports the long state robes of a lady or public officer. 2. Ornith .: A popular name for any Hummingbird of the genera Lesbia and Cynanthus. The tail is forked, with the outer feathers exce ively elongate; bill very short and straight. Four species have been described, from the highlands of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.