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We did train him on. 
And his corruption being ta’en from us, 
We as the spring of all shall pay for all. Shakspeare. 
To educate; to bring up : commonly with up. 
I can speak English, 
For I was train'd up in the English court. Shakspeare. 
To exercise, or form to any practice by exercise.—Abram 
armed his trained servants born in his house, and pursued. 
Gen. 
TRAIN, s. [train, Fr.] Artifice; stratagem of entice¬ 
ment. 
Their general did with due care provide. 
To save his men from ambush and from train. Fairfax. 
The tail of a bird.—Costly followers are not to be liked, 
lest while a man makes his train longer he makes his wings 
shorter. Bacon. —The part of a gown that falls behind upon 
the ground. 
A thousand pounds a-year, for pure respect! 
That promises more thousands: honour’s train 
Is longer than his fore skirts. Shakspeare. 
A series; a consecution : either local or mental.—Distinct 
gradual growth in knowledge carries its own light with it, in 
every step of its progression, in an easy and orderly train. 
Locke. —Process; method ; state of procedure.—If things 
were once in this train, if virtue were established as neces¬ 
sary to reputation, and vice not only loaded with infamy, but 
made the infallible ruin of all men’s pretensions, our duty 
would take root in our nature. Swift. —A retinue ; a num¬ 
ber of followers or attendants. 
My train are men of choice and rarest parts, 
That in the most exact regard support 
The worships of their names. Shakspeare. 
An orderly company; a procession. 
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, 
If better thou belong not to the dawn. Milton. 
The line of powder leading to the mine. 
Since first they fail’d in their designs. 
To take in heaven by springing mines; 
And with unanswerable barrels 
Of gunpowder, dispute their quarrels; 
Now take a course more practicable, 
By laying trains to fire the rabble. Hudibras. 
Train of artillery. Cannons accompanying an army. 
—With an army abundantly supplied with a train of artil¬ 
lery, and all other provisions necessary, the king advanced 
towards Scotland. Clarendon. 
TRA1NA, an inland town in the north-east of Sicily, in 
the Val di Demona, situated on the river Traina; 30 miles 
west-north-west of Catania, and 60 south-west of Messina. 
TRA'INABLE, adj. That may be trained.—Youth [is] 
by grace and good councell traynable to vertue. Old 
Morality. 
TRAINBA'NDS, s. [Perhaps for trained band.'] The 
militia; the part of a community trained to martial exercise. 
—He directed the train bands, which consisted of the most 
substantial householders, to attend. Clarendon. 
TRA'INBEARER, s. One that holds up a train. 
TRA'INED, adj. Having a train. 
He swooping went 
in his train'd gown about the stage. B. .Tonson. 
TRAINEL, a small town in the north-east of France, 
department of the Aube, with 1100 inhabitants; 6 miles 
south of Nogent-sur-Seine, and 27 west of Troyes. 
TRAINER, s. One who trains up; an instructor. Ash. 
TRAINING, s. The act of forming to any exercise by 
practice.—Such superficial trainings as were used by the 
lieutenants of the several counties here in England. San¬ 
derson. 
TRAINO'IL, s. Oil drawn by coction from the fat of the 
whale. 
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TRA'INY, adj. Belonging to train oil. A bad word .<< 
Here steams ascend, 
Where the huge hogsheads sweat with trainy oil. Gay. 
To TRAIPSE, v. a. [A low word. See Trape.] To 
walk in a careless or sluttish manner. 
Two slip-shod muses traipse along. 
In lofty madness, meditating song. Pope. 
TRAIT, s. [trait, Fr.] A stroke; a touch.—By this 
single trait Homer marks an essential difference between the 
Iliad and Odyssey; that in the former the people perished by 
the folly of their kings ; in this by their own folly. Broome. 
TRA'ITOR, s. [traditor, Lat.] One who being trusted 
betrays.—There is no difference, in point of morality,whether 
a man calls me traitor in one word, or says I am one hired 
to betray my religion, and sell my country. Swift. 
TRA'ITOR, adj. Traitorous.—Each rebel wish, each 
traitor inclination. Johnson. 
TRAITORS’ COVE, a harbour on the western side of the 
island of Revilla Gigedo, in the North Pacific ocean, so 
called by Captain Vancouver, from his having here been 
exposed to an attack of the natives, who resisted all his efforts 
to conciliate them. Lat. 55. 40. N. long. 228.31. E. 
TRAITORS’ HEAD, the north-east point of Erromango, 
one of the New Hebrides, so called by Captain Cook in 1774, 
from the treacherous conduct of its inhabitants. Lat. 18. 43. 
S. long. 169. 28. E. 
TRAITORS’ ISLANDS, a cluster of small islands in a bay 
of the Pacific ocean, on the coast of New Guinea. Lat. 1. 
12. S. long. 137. E. 
TRAITORS’ ISLAND, an island in the Pacific ocean, dis¬ 
covered by Le Maire and Schouten, in 1616, and so called 
from an attempt made by the natives to seize the vessel. It 
belongs to the Friendly islands, and is called by the natives 
Neoota-bootaboo. Lat. 15. 55. N. long. 173. 4S. W. • 
TRA'ITORLY, adj. Treacherous; perfidious.—These 
traitorly rascals’ miseries are to be smil’d at, their offences 
being so capital. Shakspeare. 
TRAITOROUS, adj. Treacherous; perfidious; faith¬ 
less.—More of his Majesty’s friends have lost their lives in 
this rebellion than of his traitorous subjects. Addison. 
TRAITOROUSLY, ado. In a manner suiting traitors; 
perfidiously ; treacherously.—They had traitorously endea¬ 
voured to subvert the fundamental laws, deprive the king of 
his regal power, and to place on his subjects a tyrannical 
power. Clarendon. 
TRA'ITOROUSNESS, s. Perfidiousness; treachery. 
Scott. 
TRAITRESS, s. A woman who betrays. 
By the dire fury of a traitress wife, 
Ends the sad evening of a stormy life. Pope. 
TRAJANOPOLI, a considerable town of European Tur¬ 
key, in Romania, situated on the right bank of the Maritza, 
the ancient Hebrus, about 30 miles from its mouth. It is the 
see of a Greek archbishop, and contains about 15,000 inha¬ 
bitants ; but being at some distance from the most frequented 
roads, it is little visited by travellers; 35 miles south of Adrian- 
ople, and 140 west of Constantinople. Lat. 41. 19. N. long. 
26. 20. E. 
TRAKENBURG, a market town of Austria, in Styria, with 
an iron mine and manufactures of glass; 19 miles south-east 
of Cilley. 
TRAKOSKIN, a small town of Austrian Croatia; 19 miles 
west-by-south of Warasdin. 
TRALA'TION, s, [ tralatio , Lat.] The using of a word 
in a less proper but more significant notion.—According to 
the broad tralation of his rude Rhemists. Bp. Hall. 
TRALATITIQUS, adj. [tralatitius, Lat.] Metapho¬ 
rical ; not literal.—Unless we could contrive a perfect set of 
new words, there is no speaking of the Deity without using 
our old ones in a tralatitious sense, Stackhouse. 
TRALATl'TIOUSLY, ado. Metaphorically; not liter¬ 
ally; not according to the first intention of the word.— 
Language properly is that of the tongue directed to the ear 
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