TRYST

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Trust. [Obs.]

2.
n.

An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. [Scot. or Poetic] 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. The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stile. Tennyson.

3.
v.

To trust. [Obs.]

4.
v.

To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. [Scot.] Burns.

5.
v.

To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scot.]

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