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.
{Fan training} (Hort.), the operation of training fruit
trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall
radiate from the stem like a fan.
{Horizontal training} (Hort.), the operation of training
fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall
spread out laterally in a horizontal direction.
{Training college}. See {Normal school}, under {Normal}, a.
{Training day}, a day on which a military company assembles
for drill or parade. [U. S.]
{Training ship}, a vessel on board of which boys are trained
as sailors.