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.

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