TRIST

v. n. a.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To trust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2.
n.

Trust. [Obs.]

3.
n.

A post, or station, in hunting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

4.
n.

A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See Tryst. [Obs.] George Douglas caused a trist to be set between him and the cardinal and four lords; at the which trist he and the cardinal agreed finally. Letter dated Sept., 1543.

5.
a.

Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. [Obs.] Fairfax.

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