Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TRAIN, v.t. [Fr. trainer; It. trainare, tranare, to draw or drag; Sp. traina, a train of gunpowder. Qu. drain, or is it a contracted word, from L. traho, to draw?]

1. To draw along. In hollow cube he train'd / His devilish enginery. Milton.
2. To 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. Shak.
3. To draw by artifice or stratagem. O train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note. Shak.
4. To draw from act to act by persuasion or promise. We did train him on. Shak.
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. Gen. xiv. The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train. Dryden.
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. Prov. xxii. The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory. Tillotson.