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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.…

Belonging to train oil. [Obs.] Gay.

A train of artillery for siege operations.

y bonds; to chain; to bond or con He binds in hains The droway prophet, and his limbs constrains. Dryden. When winter frosts constrain the fields with old. Dryden.

Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker.

Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.

By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker.

One who constrains.

The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden.

Constraining; compulsory. [R.] "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.

Something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed. Burke.

treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.