(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.
(v.) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
