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Violently. Holinshed.

Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.

One who strains.

from Strain. Straining piece (Arch.), a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.

Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. [Obs.] Spenser.

To overstrain. Bacon.

A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lord paramount.

The dominion or authority of a suzerain; paramount authority.

To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.

To drain the surface of, as land; as, to top-drain a field or farm.

The act or practice of drining the surface of land.

To draw along; to trail; to drag. In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery. Milton.

An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.

Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.

Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.

the London militia. [Eng.] He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace and person would hardly be secure. Macaulay. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.

One who holds up a train, as of a robe.

A dragnet. [Obs.] Holland.

One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength.

The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training (Hort.), the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training (Hort.), the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc.…