Theelongated back portion of adress orskirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.[from 14th c.]
Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride'strain as they were walking down the aisle.
1803 (date written), [Jane Austen],Northanger Abbey; published inNorthanger Abbey: And Persuasion.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London:John Murray,[…], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818),→OCLC:
They called each other by their Christian name, were always arm in arm when they walked, pinned up each other'strain for the dance, and were not to be divided in the set [...].
He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a lady does hertrain in bad weather.
2011 April 20, Imogen Fox,The Guardian:
Lace sleeves, a demure neckline, a full skirt and a relatively modesttrain.
[E]mancipation is put into such atrain that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland.
1873,Charlotte Mary Yonge,Aunt Charlotte's Stories of English History for the little ones:
A party was sent to search, and there they found all the powder ready prepared, and, moreover, a man with a lantern, one Guy Fawkes, who had undertaken to be the one to set fire to thetrain of gunpowder, hoping to escape before the explosion.
Let frantikeTalbot triumph for a while, And like a Peacock ſweepe along his tayle, Wee’le pull his Plumes, and take away hisTrayne, If Dolphin and the reſt will be but rul’d.
1894, Sir Edwin Arnold,Wandering Words, page260:
The burning evening sun lighted with mellow gold the coats of the fierce little tiger-kittens — orange silk with stripes of black velvet — the broken amethysts and ruined emeralds of the poor bird'strain cruelly scattered over the trampled grass
1917, William Henry Fitchett,Australia in the making, page xii:
Fawn and pearl of the lyre-bird'strain, / Sheen of the bronze-wing, blue of the crane; / Cream of the plover, grey of the dove; / These are the hues of the land I love!
1945,Nature Magazine, page299:
Before the Spanish Conquest, the long, slender, green plumes of the male bird'strain adorned the headgear of Aztec and Mayan kings and chieftains, as one may clearly see in modern restorations of ancient scenes.
Finally, all men saw that astronomical knowledge lied not, and they awaited the comet. Its approach was not, at first, seemingly rapid; nor was its appearance of very unusual character. It was of a dull red, and had little perceptibletrain.
1877, Amédée Guillemin, James Glaisher,The World of Comets, page200:
It sometimes happens that thetrain is directed towards the sun, or makes a certain angle with the line joining the head and the sun; it was then called by the ancient astronomers thebeard of the comet.
...the comet expands, its vapours are developed and escape in jets towards the radiant star; then we see them driven back on each side of the head and the caudaltrain commencing.
Grace was glad the citizenry did not know Katherine Gordon was in the king’strain, but she was beginning to understand Henry’s motive for including the pretender’s wife.
Agroup of animals, vehicles, or people thatfollow one another in aline, such as a wagon train; acaravan orprocession.[from 15th c.]
Our party formed atrain at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.
Asequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; acourse orprocedure of something.[from 15th c.]
1872,Charles Darwin,The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals:
A man may be absorbed in the deepest thought, and his brow will remain smooth until he encounters some obstacle in histrain of reasoning, or is interrupted by some disturbance, and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.
1960 November, P. Ransome=Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Three”, inTrains Illustrated, page679:
Failure to acknowledge an A.T.C. warning or excessive speed starts the sametrain of events until correction is made.
2012 June 18, Rory Carroll,The Guardian:
"Where was I?" he asked several times during the lunch, losing histrain of thought.
As we had been in a goodtrain for several days past, I thought it not prudent to break with him, for little matters.
1779,Samuel Jackson Pratt, chapter 7, inShenstone-Green: or, the New Paradise Lost[3], volume 1, London: R. Baldwin, page46:
I took care that my absence should neither be lamented by the poor nor the rich. I put every thing in a fairtrain of going on smoothly, and actually set out, with my steward, for my estate in Wales at dawning of the day.
1787,George Washington, letter toAlexander Hamilton dated 10 July, 1787, inThe Writings of George Washington, Boston: American Stationers’ Company, 1837, Volume 9, p. 260,[4]
When I refer you to the state of the counsels, which prevailed at the period you left this city, and add that they are now if possible in a worsetrain than ever, you will find but little ground on which the hope of a good establishment can be formed.
A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typicallydiesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers andfreight along a designated track or path; aline of connectedwagons considered overall as a mode oftransport; (as uncountable noun)rail orroad travel.[from 19th c.]
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as thetrain pulled up at the other.
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglevtrains even though it relies on conventional rails. Localtrains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercitytrains and allow passengers to switchtrains by stepping through docking bays.
The dispatches[…] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a militarytrained by westerners.
2023 July 15, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, “‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I.”, inThe New York Times[6],→ISSN:
At least 10 lawsuits have been filed this year against A.I. companies, accusing them oftraining their systems on artists’ creative work without consent.
2000, Sensei David O.E. Mohr - Lord Ronin from Q-Link, “WTB:"The Last V-8" C128 game -name correction”, incomp.sys.cbm (Usenet):
I got a twix on the 128 version being fixed andtrained by Mad Max at M2K BBS 208-587-7636 in Mountain Home Idaho. He fixes many games and puts them on his board. One of my sources for games and utils.
2021, Mark J. P. Wolf,Encyclopedia of Video Games:
In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked andtrained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared[…]
(transitive,obsolete) To draw (something) along; to trail, to drag (something).
1667,John Milton, “Book VI”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
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Thou hast beentrained from thy post by some deep guile — some well-devised stratagem – the cry of some distressed maiden has caught thine ear, or the laughful look of some merry one has taken thine eye.
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