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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Trane, Trayn(e, v. Also: train(e, trean, tryne. [ME and e.m.E. trayne(n (?a1400), treyne (1412-20), train (1526), OF traïner, trahiner.]

1. tr. To draw, entice (a person) (in, to, etc. a danger, etc.); to lead astray; to trap, ensnare. Also const. on, out.(a) 1375 Barb. xix 356.
The lord Dowglas … trawersyt all wayis … Thaim ner his bataillis for to trayn c1420 Wynt. ix 2504 (C).
The Scottis yeit it plesand thocht That gret multitude … For to trayne in that perile 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 175.
To open ane litle yeat … to traine thame in vnto the close c1590 Fowler I 209/2.
It is thy plat and course, o mightye Love, To trayne me to thy girns agane & snaire 1596 Dalr. II 4/35 (see Tran(e n. 2).
Trayne 1633 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 91.
Linger not by the way. The world and sin would train you on, and make you turn aside c1650 Spalding I 22.
To trayne him out he settis his corn yaird in fyre 1651 Dickson Matthew 103.
The Lord will seem not to regard the prayer which he mindeth to grant, and so will traine on the supplicant patiently to pursue his request 16… J. Dickson Warning (1716) 7.
As if by a wildfire taper they were training you into a pit(b) a1500 Seven S. 1060.
That scho mycht ald Ysak trane with wyne And mak him drunkin 1494 Loutfut MS 30b.
His furour wes sa vennomus that gud & evil fere & nere … drew nere him and of his nerenes wes sa tranyt that [etc.] 1533 Boece 125b.
Sum parte of Romanis … war tranyt and cummerit amang stakkis and haggis 1533 Boece 422b.
Grete nowmer of Danis chaissing Scottis war tranit apoun the buschment and slane 1533 Boece 434b.
The king with his armye travellit ane huly pais tending to trane inemyis fer fra thare native cuntre a1568 Bann. MS 143b/31.
Trow ȝe thus gait me to trane? 1570 Leslie 212.
Be quhome thay war at lenth traned in and inclosed, betuix the Frenche fuitmen and the Almanis 1570 Sat. P. xxiii 115.
Lethingtoun with tratling he do trane thame, Garring thame trow the Frenche men is at hand 1611-57 Mure Dido & Æneas i 639.
The wanton wod-nymphs fast abowt her throng, … She joyfully them traines the plains along 1616 Crim. Trials III 411.
William Moffet intyset and tranet the said Adame furth of Hadingtoun a1651 Calderwood IV 38.
That nobleman, whome they trained to the shambles: for Arran craftilie induced him to confesse diverse things under promise of pardoun

b. To lead (something) forward, to cause (the elements of a process) to occur. 1533 Boece 499b.
Thay devise to rais fyre … be ane threde wrocht with pik & burntstane, apoun the end of the quhilk is kindillit ane litill spunk of fyre, quhilk never sall rais ane lowe vnto the tyme itt twich the birntstane; and sa thai trane the fyre diuers dayis or it kyith within the hous c1590 Fowler I 78/34.
So did this ioyfull cumpanie with ioy each fitsteppe trane

2. To subject to (military) discipline or instruction, to teach, instruct (in a discipline or to do something). Chiefly const. up.(1) 1548 Corr. M. Lorraine 266.
I … send yow xl men of the soldeiors … And I have sent yow of the best of them, but I thinke they have bene lyttill tranyd in the warres 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. xvi.
Lyke the eagle … trayning her yong to flee 1604-31 Craig iii 3.
Some [Corinthians] taught & trained the neoterick sogers(2) 1589–90 Reg. Privy C. IV 452.
Being tranyt up and exerceit in the said arte c1590 Fowler II 135/24.
Suddarts that ar traned up c1590 Fowler II 138/22.
A new prence … traneth vp his pepill in armes 1600-1610 Melvill 38.
He was twall yeir of age, traned upe in letters in the scoll of Montrose 1611 Reg. Privy C. IX 201.
Youthis … who hes bene wele trayned up and groundit, and maid … avowall of the new religioun presentlie professit 1652 Glasgow Burgesses 136.
Provyding he … instruct ane of the towns poor boyis as prenteis and traine up in his tred(b) 1600-1610 Melvill 16.
Honest mens berns … weill treaned upe bathe in letters, godlines, and exerceise of honest geames 1600-1610 Melvill 29.
Wha haid been treaned upe amangis the mounks in the abbay 1600-1610 Melvill 148.
It pleased God … to begin to trean upe and fram that maist notable preatchour(c) 1639 Elgin Rec. I 263.
John Fraser … wnder tuik to be dreill maister within the burghe of Elgin to tryne vp the persones in dreilling with thair wapones

3. To draw, pull. 1587-99 Hume 29/110.
The sunne … Nocht guided be na Phaeton, Nor trained in a chyre 1587-99 Hume 59/234.
Sum were train'd be horsse of coulor white 1587-99 Hume 56/148.
Coschis traind with slander, shame, and lack

4. To follow. c1590 Fowler I 86/5.
Being left I knew not weill whose fitstepps for to trane I lost my guyde

5. intr. and reflex. To go, move, draw (into, on a place).intr. c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus i 189.
[Into] that garth … [The twa] [sc. Disperance and Esperance] did trynereflex. 1590 Burel Pilgr. ii 515.
Remane ye, or trane ye, On see so far of schore