What does "tryst" mean?
Tryst: 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. Tennyson.
Additional senses
- 2.To trust. [Obs.]
- 3.To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. [Scot.] Burns.
- 4.To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scot.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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