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One who summarized.

One who cultivates forest trees, especially as a business.

One eminently studious of symmetry of parts. Sir H. Wotton.

A temporizer. [Obs.] Why, turn a temporist, row with the tide. Marston.

One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.

A textuary. [R.]

Anointed by God.

One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist. Cowper. The greatest theoretists have given the preference to such a government as that which obtains in this kingdom. Addison.

Thrist. [Obs.] Spenser.

One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.

eeting, 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.

A cattle fair. [Prov. Eng.]

Tristearin.

See Stearin.

Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. Shak. Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, Heart so full of care and cumber. Longfellow.

In a tristful manner; sadly.

Arranged in three vertical rows.

Having, or consisting of, three stigmas. Gray.

To make sad. [Obs.] Feltham.

Any one of numerous species of trematode worms belonging to Tristoma and allied genera having a large posterior sucker and two small anterior ones. They usually have broad, thin, and disklike bodies, and are parasite on the gills and skin of fishes.