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Entry 5 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Tryst

/trĭst/ · IPA /tɹɪst/
01 n. Trust.
  1. 1.
    Trust.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst.[Scot. or Poetic]
    “The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stile.” — Tennyson.
Phrases & compounds
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.
02 v. t. To trust.
  1. 1.
    To trust.[Obs.]
  2. 2.
    To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with.[Scot.]
03 v. i. To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.
  1. 1.
    To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.[Scot.]