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noun

Tryst n.

Trust. (Obs.)

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."

verb

Tryst v. t.

To trust. (Obs.)

To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. (Scot.)

Tryst v. i. To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. (Scot.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tryst" Quotes from Famous Books

... guides a youth through doors unknown; 'Tis taught of her, a maid with firm-set lips Steals from her soft couch, silent and alone, And noiseless to her tryst securely trips. ...

— The Elegies of Tibullus • Tibullus

... Fairfield. It's because of our way of thinking and minding our own business. If one of your Londoners were set down on the green of a Saturday night when the ghosts of the lads who died in the war keep tryst with the lasses who lie in the church-yard, he couldn't help being curious and interfering, and then the ghosts would go somewhere where it was quieter. But we just let them come and go and don't make any fuss, and in consequence Fairfield is the ghostiest ...

— The Ghost Ship • Richard Middleton

... direction and locality is very acute. This group of seals in front of me, day after day, and week after week, returns to the same spot in the ever-changing waters, without the variation of a single yard, so far as I can see. The locality is purely imaginary. It is a love tryst, and it seems as if some sixth sense must guide them to it. Locality is as unreal in the sea as in the sky, but these few square yards of shifting waters seem as real to these seals as if they were a granite ledge. They keep massed ...

— Under the Maples • John Burroughs

... where he was cordially welcomed by Lochiel, and lodged in a building close to the chief's own house, a rude structure of pine-wood, but in his men's eyes a magnificent palace. The clans had proved true to their tryst. Every Cameron who could wield a broadsword was there. From the wild peaks of Corryarrick and Glen Garry, from the dark passes of Glencoe and the storm-beaten islands of the western seas, the men of Macdonald came trooping in. Sir John of Duart brought a strong ...

— Claverhouse • Mowbray Morris

... was several nights before Lindley was sufficiently recovered from his wound to again keep tryst with Johan, the player's boy. When at last he could ride out to the edge of the Ogilvie woods, he found the lad sitting on the ground under an oak, apparently waiting for whatever might happen. He did ...

— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various

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