Train (?), n.
1. A heavy
long sleigh used in Canada for
the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the
like.
2. (Mil.)
The aggregation of men, animals, and vehicles which accompany an army or one of its subdivisions, and transport its baggage, ammunition, supplies, and reserve materials of all kinds.
Train , n. [F. train, OF. traïn, trahin;
cf. (for some of the senses) F.
traine. See Train, v.]
1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. [Obs.] "Now
to my charms, and to my wily trains." Milton.
2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a
trap for an
animal; a snare. Halliwell.
With cunning trains him to entrap
un wares.
Spenser. 3. That
which is drawn along in the rear of, or after,
something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically :
--
(a) That part of
a gown which trails behind the wearer.
(b) (Mil.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
(c) The tail of a bird. "The train steers their flights,
and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship." Ray.
4. A number of followers; a body of
attendants; a retinue; a suite.
The king's daughter with a lovely train.
Addison.
My train
are men of choice and rarest
parts.
Shak. 5. A consecution or succession of connected things; a series. "A train of happy sentiments." I.
Watts.
The train of ills our love would draw behind it.
Addison. Rivers now
Stream and perpetual draw their humid train.
Milton.
Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order.
Locke. 6. Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
If things were once in this
train, . . . our duty would take root in
our nature.
Swift. 7. The number of
beats of a watch in any
certain time.
8. A line
of gunpowder laid to lead
fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
9. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
10. A heavy, long
sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the
like.
11. (Rolling Mill) A roll train;
as, a 12- inch
train.
Roll train, or Train of
rolls (Rolling Mill), a set of plain
or grooved rolls for rolling metal into various forms by a series of consecutive
operations. -- Train mile (Railroads), a unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being
one of the total number of miles run by
all the trains of a road, or system of
roads, as within a given time,
or for a given expenditure; --
called also mile run. -- Train of artillery, any number of
cannon, mortars, etc., with
the attendants and carriages which follow them into the
field. Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci.). --
Train of mechanism, a series of moving pieces, as wheels and pinions, each of which is follower to that which drives it, and driver to that which follows it. -- Train road, a slight railway for small cars, -- used for construction, or in mining. -- Train tackle
(Naut.), a tackle for running guns in and out.
Syn. --
Cars. -- Train, Cars. Train is the word universally used in England
with reference to railroad traveling; as, I came in the morning train. In the United
States, the phrase the cars has been extensively introduced
in the room
of train; as, the cars are late; I came in the
cars. The English expression is obviously more appropriate, and is prevailing more and more among Americans, to the exclusion of the cars.
Train , v. i. 1. To
be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
2. To prepare by
exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
Train (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trained (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Training.]
[OF.
trahiner, traïner,F. traîner, LL.
trahinare, trainare, fr. L. trahere
to draw. See
Trail.]
1. To draw along; to trail; to drag.
In hollow cube
Training his devilish enginery.
Milton.
2. 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.
Ford. 3. 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. 4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as
oxen.
5. (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.
Jeffrey. 6. (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.
Hear it pronounced