| Tryst | n. [ OE. trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf. Icel. treysta to make trusty, fr. traust confidence, security. See Trust, n. ] 1. Trust. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 2. An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. [ Scot. or Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
To bide tryst, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment. [ 1913 Webster ]
The tenderest-hearted maid
That ever bided tryst at village stile. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Tryst | v. t. [ OE. tristen, trysten. See Tryst, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. To trust. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. [ Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Trysting | n. An appointment; a tryst. [ 1913 Webster ]
Trysting day, an arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ] And named a trysting day,
And bade his messengers ride forth
East and west and south and north,
To summon his array. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] --
Trysting place, a place designated for the assembling of soldiers, the meeting of parties for an interview, or the like; a rendezvous. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
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