traily (trali)

[ Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] train1 (tran), v. [Early mod. E. also traine, trayne; So he hath hir trayned and drawen that the lady myght no lenger crye ne brayen. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 299. Not distant far with heavy pace the foe Approaching gro and huge; in hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. Milton , P. L., vi. 553. train 2. To draw by artifice, stratagem, persuasion, or the like; entice; allure. What pitie is it that any.. man shulde... be trayned... in to this lot he some dungeon [idlene ]. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, i. 26. We did train him on, And, his corruption being ta'en from us, We, as the spring of all, shall pay for all. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 2. 21. IMG:content-0709.jpg:[graphic] With pretext of doing him an unwonted honour in the senate, he trains him from his guards. B. Jonson, Sejanus, Arg. Martius Galeotti, who, by his impostures and specious falsehoods, has trained me hither into the power of my mortal enemy. Scott, Quentin Durward, xxviii. 3. To bring into some desired course or state by means of some proce of instruction and exercise. ( a ) To educate; instruct; rear; bring up: often with up. So was she trayned up from time to time In all chaste vertue and true bounti-hed. Spenser, F. Q., III. vi. 3. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when [even when, R. V.] he is old he will not depart from it. Prov. xxii. 6. You have trained me like a peasant. IMG:content-0710.png:[blocks in formation] (c) To tame or render docile; exercise in the performance of certain tasks or tricks: as, to train dogs or monkeys. Animals can be trained by man, but they cannot train themselves. They can be taught some accomplishments, formed to some new habits; but where man has not done this for them they remain uneducated. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 33. (d) To fit by proper exercise and regimen for the performance of some feat; render capable of enduring the strain incident to a contest of any kind, by a course of suitable exercise, regimen, etc.; put in suitable condition, as for a race, by preparatory exercise, etc.: as, to train a boat's crew for a race. (e) To give proper or some particular shape or direction to by systematic manipulation or extension; specifically, in gardening, to extend the branches of, as on a wall, espalier, etc. Tell her, when I'm gone, to train the rose-bush that I set About the parlour-window. Tennyson, May Queen, New-Year's Eve. Why will she train that winter curl In such a spring-like way? O. W. Holmes, My Aunt. 4. To bring to bear; direct or aim carefully: as, to train a gun upon a ve el or a fort. Again and again we set up the camera, and trained it upon a part of the picturesque trong G. Kennan, The Century, XXXVIII. 73. To train a scentt, in hunting , same as to carry a scent. See phrase under scent . I ha' seene one Sheepe worry a dozen Foxes, By Moon-shine, in a morning before day, They hunt, trayne-sents with Oxen, and plow with Dogges. Brome, The Antipodes, 1. 6. To train fine. See fine2. = Syn. 3. To school, habituate, inure. See instruction. II. in trans. 11. To be attracted or lured. The highest soaring Hauke traineth to ye lure. Lyly , Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 35. 2. To exercise; impart proficiency by practice and use; drill; discipline. Nature trains while she teaches; she disciplines the powers while she imparts information to the intellect. 3. To fit one's self for the performance of some Clarke, Self-Culture, Int., p. 11. feat by preparatory regimen and exercise. So he resolved at once to train, And walked and walked with all his main. W. S. Gilbert , Perils of Invisibility. 4. To be under training, as a recruit for the army; be drilled for military service.-5. Το travel by train or by rail: sometimes with an indefinite it. [Colloq.] From Aberdeen to Edinburgh we trained it by easy Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 954. stages. 6. To consort with; be on familiar terms with: as, I don't train with that crowd. Compare def. 4. [Slang.] -7. To romp; carry on. [Colloq. and vulgar, U. S.] To train off, to go off obliquely: said of the flight of a shot.