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Train
King James Dictionary
or TRAIN, L. traho, to draw?
1. To draw along.
In hollow cube he train'd
His devilish enginery.
2. Top draw to entice to allure.
If but twelve French
Were there in arms, they would be as a call
To train ten thousand English to their side.
3. To draw by artifice or stratagem.
O train me not, sweet mermaid,with thy note.
4. To draw from act to act by persuasion or promise.
We did train him on.
5. To exercise to discipline to teach and form by practice as, to train the militia to the manual exercise to train soldiers to the use of arms and to tactics. Abram armed his trained servants. Genesis 14
The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train.
6. To break, tame and accustom to draw as oxen.
7. In gardening, to lead or direct and form to a wall or espalier to form to a proper shape by growth, lopping or pruning as, to train young trees.
8. In mining, to trace a lode or any mineral appearance to its head.
To train or 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. Proverbs 22
The first christians were, by great hardships, trained
up for glory.
TRAIN, n. Artifice stratagem of enticement.
Now to my charms,
And to my wily trains.
1. Something drawn along behind, the end of a gown, &c. as the train of a gown or robe.
2. The tail of a fowl.
The train steers their flight, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of a ship.
3. A retinue a number of followers or attendants.
My train are men of choice and rarest parts.
The king s daughter with a lovely train.
4. A series a consecution or succession of connected things.
Rivers now stream and draw their humid train.
Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order.
--The train of ills our love would draw behind it.
5. Process regular method course. Things are now in a train for settlement.
If things were once in this train--our duty would take root in our nature.
6. A company in order a procession.
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night.
7. The number of beats which a watch makes in any certain time.
8. A line of gunpowder, laid to lead fire to a charge, or to a quantity intended for execution.
Train of artillery, any number of cannon and mortars accompanying an army.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Train'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/t/train.html.
