Tryst
Tryst , noun
[Old English trist, tryst, a variant of trust; compare Icelandic treysta to make trusty, from traust confidence, security. See Trust, n.]
1.
Trust. [Obsolete]
2.
An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. [Scottish or Poetic]
The tenderest-hearted maid
That ever bided tryst at village stile.
Collocations (1)
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.
Tryst , transitive verb
[Old English tristen, trysten. See Tryst, n.]
1.
To trust. [Obsolete]
2.
To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. [Scottish] — Burns
Tryst , intransitive verb
To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scottish]