train

Language: EN · Kind: word

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1. train (noun) — sense 1

Definition: Treachery; deceit.

Example: In the meane time, through that false Ladies traine / He was surprisd, and buried under beare, / Ne ever to his worke returnd againe [...].

2. train (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A trick or stratagem.

3. train (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.

4. train (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.

Example: If but a dozen French / Were there in arms, they would be as a call / To train ten thousand English to their side.

5. train (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To be on intimate terms with.

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