trail 
And [ihe] was clothed In a rlche robe that traijled to the 
mono* more than twu fadome, that utte so well with 
hir bewte that nil the worldc DurffhtbAIM loye, her t<- be- 
holden. I/' I'/lii (K. K. T. S.), III. 453. 
Rending her yeolow looks, like wyrie gold 
About her nhouitlers c';n clrslir iluwne trailing. 
.Vvwrr, Kuins of Time, 1. 11. 
2. To grow loosely and without .self-support to 
a considerable length along the ground or over 
bushes, roekH, or other low objects; recline nr 
droop null as it were drag upon the ground, an 
a brunch. Sec trm/mi/ /ilnat, below. 3. To 
move with a nlow sweeping motion. 
And through the momentary iil<.ni 
of shadows o'er the landscape trailing. 
/.<>/. <//.7/mr, (jolden Legend, Iv. 
4. To loiter or creep along as a straggler or a 
person who is nearly tired out; walk or make 
one's way idly or lazily. 
He trail* along the streets. 
Character uj a ToumUallant (1076X p. 5. (Encyc. Diet.) 
We trailed wearily along the level road. 
The Century, XXIII. 054. 
6f. To reach or extend in a straggling way. 
Cape Roxo Is a low Cape and traylinii to the sea-ward. 
Halctuyt'i Voyayei, III. 816. 
6. To figh with or from a trailer: as, to trail 
for mackerel. Trailing arbutus. See arbutu* and 
Bpigeea. Trailing arm. See armi. Trailing axle. 
See axle. Trailing azalea. See Laiteleuria. Trail- 
ing Plant, a plant unable U> support Itself, but neither 
on the one hand ascending by the aid of tendrils or by 
twining, nor on the other hand creeping and rooting or 
lying flat, but simply growing; over such objects a may 
present themselves. The trailing habit may, however, be 
combined with the climbing or the creeping, 
trail-t (ti-al), n. [< ME. traite, <OF. (and F.) 
treille, a trellis, a latticed frame, < L. trichila, 
also in inscriptions tricla, triclea, triclia, an ar- 
bor, bower. Bence ult. trellis.'] 1. A latticed 
frame ; a trellis for running or climbing plants. 
Owt of the preas I me wlth-drewhe ther-fore, 
And sett me doun by-hynde a (raid; 
Full.- of levU. 
Political Poenu, etc. (ed. Funiivall), p. fw. 
2. A runn ing ornameu t or enrichment of leaves, 
flowers, tendrils, etc., as in the hollow moldings 
of Gothic architecture ; a wreath. 
And over all of purest gold was spred 
A trayle of y vie in his native hew. 
Spnuer, F. Q., II. ill. 61. 
I bequeth to William Paston. my sone, my standing 
cuppe chased parcell gilt with a cover with myn armes in 
the botom and a futtte pece with a trail upon the cover. 
Paston Letter*, III. 186. 
trail' 2 ! (tral), v. t. [< trail*, .] To overspread 
with a tracery or intertwining pattern or orna- 
ment. 
A Camls light of purple silk, . . . 
Trayled with ribbands diveraly distraught, 
Like as the workeman had their courses taught 
Speruer, F. Q., V. T. 2. 
trail 3 ! (tral), n. [Abbr. of entrail, as orig. ac- 
cented on the final syllable : gee entra-il*.] En- 
trails ; the intestines of game when cooked and 
sent to table, as those of snipe and woodcock, 
and certain fish ; also, the intestines of sheep. 
The thrash is presented with the trail, because the 
bird feeds on olives. Smollett, Travels, xrili. 
T-rail (te'ral), . A rail with a cross-section 
having approximately the form of a letter T. 
See rail*, 5. 
trailbastont, . [ME., also traytbaston, traile- 
baston, < OF. (AF.) trailebaston, traylebaston, 
prob. so called from the staves or clubs they 
carried, < trailler, trail, + boston, staff, club: 
see trail 1 , v., and baston, baton. Roquefort 
gives the OF. as tray-lf-baston, as if < trairc, 
draw, < L. trailers (or truer, < L. traders, give 
up) + le, the, + baston, staff. This view is not 
tenable.] In Eng. hist., one of a class of disor- 
derly persons, banded robbers, murderers, and 
incendiaries, who gave great trouble in the 
reign of Edward I., and were so numerous that 
judges were appointed expressly for the pur- 
pose of trying them. See the phrases below. 
People of good will have made reply to the l.n, B 
How throughout the land Is made a great grievance 
By common quarrellers, who are by oath 
Bound together to a compact ; 
Those of that company are named Trailbaittons. 
In fairs and markets they offer themselves to make an en- 
gagement, 
For three shillings or four, or for the worth, 
To beat a freeman who never did Injury 
To Christian body, by any evidence. 
If a man otfends any otie of the confederacy, 
Or a merchant refuses to give him credit with his wares, 
In his own house, without other dealing. 
He should be well beaten, or to make it up 
II shall give of his money, and take acquittance. 
If there be not some stop put to this turbulence, 
A war of the commons will arise by chance. 
Langtoft, Chronicle (ed. Wright), II. 361. 
6421 
Court of Trallbaston. See court. Justices of Trail- 
baston, "Justices whose ..flier was to make Inquliltlon 
through the realm l>> the verdict ..f substantial Juries 
upon all officers, aa lujron, sheriffs, lialliltH, Kucheaton, 
and others, touching Kxt"rti..n, J'.iihrn, nn.l ..(her such 
grievances, as intrusion* into other men's lands, Narra- 
tors, and breakers of the peace, with divers other offenders : 
by means of which 
imiiiiMtioim many 
were punished by 
death, many by ran- 
som, and the reat 
flying the realm . 
the land was quiet- 
ed, and the King 
gained great riches 
towards the support 
of his wars." Cvtcel. 
trail-board 
(tnil ' bord), it. 
In ship-building, 
one of the two 
curved pieces 
which extend 
from the stem to the figurehead. It is fastened 
to the knee of the head. 
trail-car (tral'kar), n. A street railway-car 
which is not furnished with motive power, but 
is designed to be pulled or trailed behind an- 
other to which the power is applied. [U. S.] 
trailer (tra'ler), n. [< trail* + -er*.] 1. One 
who or that which trails, specifically- (a) A trail- 
ing plant or trailing branch. 
Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland, swings the trailer 
from the crag. Tennynon, Lock-ley Hall. 
. Trail-board. 
Lowest trailer of a weeping elm. 
The house was a stone cottage, covered with trailert. 
The Century, XXVI. 279. 
(6) On a vehicle, a short pointed bar sometimes suspended 
from the rear axle, and serving as a stop or brake In going 
up steep hills ; a stopper, (c) A flexible or hinged con- 
tact piece pulled over a series of terminal plates so as to 
distribute electric currents. 
2. An old style of vessel employed in mackerel- 
fishing about 1800. These vessels had outriggers or 
long poles on each side, the foremost about 1? feet long, 
the others decreasing In length to S feet aft, to the ends 
of which were fastened lines about 20 fathoms long, with 
a sinker of four pounds. To each of these lines was at- 
tached a bridle, reaching to the side of the vessel, where 
the fishermen stood to feel the bites. 
3. A trail-car. [U. S.] 
trail-eye (tral'i), n. An attachment at the end 
of the trail of a gun-carriage for limbering np. 
See cut under gun. 
trail-handspike (tral'hand'spik), . A wooden 
or metallic lever used to maneuver the trail of 
a field-gun carriage in pointing the gun. 
trailing (tra'ling), w. [Verbal n. of trail*, r.] 
Same as trolling and trawling. See trailer, 2. 
trailing-spring (tra'ling-spring), n. A spring 
fixed in the axle-box of the trailing-wheels of 
a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist 
in deadening any shock which may occur. 
Weale. 
trailing-wheel(tra'ling-hwel), w. 1. The hind 
wheel of a carriage. 2. In a railway locomo- 
tive in which the weight of the truck or of the 
rear of the engine requires support, a small 
wheel placed on each side behind the driving- 
wheel. 
traill (tral), n. [< Traill (see def.).] Traill's 
flycatcher, Empidonax trailli, one of the four 
commonest species of small flycatchers of east- 
ern parts of the United States, originally named 
in 1832, by Audubon, as Muscicapa traillii, after 
Dr. Thomas Stewart Traill, editor of the eighth 
edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." See 
cut under Enipidonajc. 
trail-net (tral net), w. A net drawn or trailed 
behind a boat, or by two persons on opposite 
banks, in sweeping a stream ; a drag-net. 
trail-plate (tral'plat), n. In a field-gun car- 
riage, the ironwork at the end of the trail on 
which is the trail-eye. 
traily (tra'li), a. f< trail* + -y*.] Slovenly. 
ffallitcHI. [Prov. Eng.] 
train 1 (tran), v. [Early mod. E. also traine, 
trayne; < ME. trainen, traynen, < OF. trainer, 
trahiner, F. trainer = Pr. trainar = 8p. traji- 
nar = It. trainare, draw, entice, trail along, < 
ML. trahinare, drag along, trail, < L. trahere, 
draw: see tract 1 , and cf. trail*, from the same 
source. Hence train*, n. For the sense 'edu- 
cate,' from the lit. sense 'draw,' cf. educate, 
ult. < L. educare, draw put.] I. front. 1. To 
draw or drag along ; trail. 
So he hath hir trayned and drawen that the lady myght 
no lenger crye ne brayen. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), II. Z>9. 
Not distant far with heavy pace the foe 
Approaching gross and huge : in hollow cube 
Trui'iiiim his devilish enginery. 
MOton, f. L, vt 55S. 
train 
2. To draw by artifice. >tr:it:i^cui. 
nr the like' ; entice ; allure. 
What pltle Is It that any . . . man shnlde ... be 
trained . . . in to this lothcsomc <linn.'."ii [idleness). 
!li. i..,ii-inour,L!M. 
We did train him on. 
And, his corruption being U'en from us, 
We, u the spring of all, shall pay for mil. 
S*a*.,jHen. IV., v. t. -.1. 
With pretext of doing him an unwonted honour In the 
senate, he train* him from Ills guards. 
It. Jonton. Sejanua, Arg. 
Martlus Galeottl, who, by his Impostures and specious 
falsehoods, has trained me hither into the power of my 
mortal enemy. Seolt, guentin Durward, xxvih. 
3. To bring into some desin-d course or atte 
by means of some process of instruction and 
cvrcise. (a) To educate; Instruct; rear; bring up: 
often with up. 
80 was she trayned up from time to time 
In all chaste vertue and true l>ountl-hed. 
Sprntrr, K. g., III. vL S. 
Train up a child In the way he should go, and when 
[even when, R. V.) he Is old he will not depart from It 
JTov. xxll. 6. 
Vu hare trained me like a peasant. 
Shall., Ayou Like It, I. 1. 71. 
(d) To make proficient or efficient, u In some art or pro- 
fession, by Instruction, exercise, or discipline; make pro- 
ficient by Instruction or drill : us, to train uursea ; to (ram 
soldiers. 
Anil when Abram heard that his brother was taken cap- 
tive, he armed his trained servants. Qen. xlv. 14. 
Trained In camps, he knew the art 
To win the soldier's hardy heart 
Scott, M: mlon. III. 4. 
(c) To tame or render docile ; exercise In the performance 
of certain tasks or tricks : as, to train dogs or monkeys. 
Animals can lie trained by man, but they cannot train 
themselves. They can be taught some accomplishment*, 
formal to some new hablta ; but where man has not done 
this for them they remain uneducated. 
J. F. Clarice, Self-Culture, p. 83. 
(d) To fit by proper exercise and regimen for the perform- 
ance of some feat ; render capable of enduring the strain 
Incident to a contest of any kind, by a course of suitable 
exercise, regimen, etc. ; put in suitable condition, aa for a 
race, by preparatory exercise, etc.: as, to train a boat's 
crew for a race, (e) To give proper or some particular 
shape or direction to by systematic manipulation or exten- 
sion ; specifically, In gardening, to extend the branches of, 
as on a wall, espalier, etc. 
Tell her, when I'm gone, to train the rose-bush that I set 
About the parlour-window. 
Tennyton, May Queen, Sew. Year's Eve. 
Why will she train that winter curl 
In such a spring-like way? 
0. W. Hnlmet, My Aunt 
4. To bring to bear; direct or aim carefully: 
as, to train a gun upon a vessel or a fort. 
Again and again we set up the camera, and trained It 
upon a part of the picturesque throng. 
G. Kennan, The Century, XXXVIII. 73. 
To train a scentt, In ImniiiKj. same as to carry a Kent. 
See phrase under tcfnt. 
I ha' seene one Sheepe worry a dozen Foxes, 
By Moon-shine, In a morning before day, 
They hunt, trayne-enl* with Oxen, and plow with Dogget. 
Brome, The Antipodes, T. 6. 
To train fine. See fine?. = Syn. 3. To school, habituate, 
inure. See instruction. 
II. intrans. If. To be attracted or lured. 
The highest soaring Hauke traineth to ye lure. 
I.lilH, Euphues, Anat of Wit, p. 35. 
2. To exercise ; impart proficiency by practice 
and use; drill; discipline. 
Nature train* while she teaches: she disciplines the 
powers while she Imparts Information to the Intellect 
J. F. Clarice, Self-Culture, Int., p. 11. 
3. To fit one's self for the performance of some 
feat by preparatory regimen and exercise. 
So he resolved at once to train, 
And walked and walked with all his main. 
W. S. OUbert, Perils of Invisibility. 
4. To be under training, as a recruit for the 
army; be drilled for military service. 5. To 
travel by train or by rail : sometimes with an 
indefinite it. [Colloq.] 
From Aberdeen to Edinburgh we trained it by easy 
stages. Harper'i Mag., IAXVII. 064. 
6. To consort with ; be on familiar terms with : 
as, I don't train with that crowd. Compare 
def. 4. [Slang.] 7. To romp; carry on. 
[Colloq. and vulgar, U. S.] To train off to go off 
obliquely : said of the flight of a shot 
train 1 (tran), n. [Early mod. E. also traine, 
trayne; < ME. trayn. truyne, treync, < OF. train, 
si train, retinue, course, etc., a drag, sled, etc., 
F. train, a train, retinue, herd (of cattle), pace, 
course, way, bustle, train of boats or cars, etc.. 
= Pr. tralii = Sp. trnjin, trtijinn. formerly from. 
traytio, = It. tniino, a train (in various senses); 
cf. OF. traltine, t., a drag, dray, sled, drag-net, 
F. traine, the condition of being dragged; from 
the verb: see train*, r. Cf. trail*, n., from the 
