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trained |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: trained adj 1: shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form "a trained mind"; "trained pigeons"; "well-trained servants" [ant: {untrained}] 2: having acquired necessary skills by e.g. undergoing a course of study; "a trained nurse"; "a trained voice"; "trained manpower"; "psychologically trained workers"
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