| tryst | 1. Trust. 2. An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. 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) Origin: OE. Trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf. Icel. Treysta to make trusty, fr. Traust confidence, security. See Trust. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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