资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Train \Train\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trained}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Training}.] [OF. trahiner, tra["i]ner,F. tra[^i]ner, 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.