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.

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