Found 1 hit - Term: to train up, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
train \train\, v. t. imp. p. p. trained; p. pr. vb. n.
training. of. trahiner, tra"iner,f. tra^iner, ll.
trahinare, trainare, fr. l. trahere to draw. see trail.
1913 webster
1. to draw along; to trail; to drag.
1913 webster
in hollow cube
training his devilish enginery. --milton.
1913 webster
2. to draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract
by stratagem; to entice; to allure. obs.
1913 webster
if but a dozen french
were there in arms, they would be as a call
to train ten thousand english to their side. --shak.
1913 webster
o, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note.
--shak.
1913 webster
this feast, i'll gage my life,
is but a plot to train you to your ruin. --ford.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most
proper strength of a free nation. --milton.
1913 webster
the warrior horse here bred he's taught to train.
--dryden.
1913 webster
4. to break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
he trained the young branches to the right hand or
to the left. --jeffrey.
1913 webster
6. mining to trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to
its head.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
train up a child in the way he should go; and when
he is old, he will not depart from it. --prov. xxii.
6.
1913 webster
the first christians were, by great hardships,
trained up for glory. --tillotson.
1913 webster
see also:
trained training trail to train a gun to train to train up
Results 1 - 6 of 6 found about to train up: Ball Up
>> B Words
Ball Up, definition of term: Ball Up
ball+up_pag1.html Bang Up
>> B Words
Bang Up, definition of term: Bang Up
bang+up_pag1.html Backed Up
>> B Words
Backed Up, definition of term: Backed Up
backed+up_pag1.html Back Up
>> B Words
Back Up, definition of term: Back Up
back+up_pag1.html Ante Up
>> A Words
Ante Up, definition of term: Ante Up
ante+up_pag1.html Act Up
>> A Words
Act Up, definition of term: Act Up
act+up_pag1.html
Last accessed:2008/12/02 07:44:40 [Total processing time: 0 seconds] |