Home | Articles | Dictionary | Shopping | Calculator
Add Tryst to del.icio.us

GCIDE: Defining Tryst using "exact" search strategy.

Enter a word, phrase, city, state or zip to define:


Select database to search:


Select a search strategy:


Multiple Dictionary Search - Thesaurus, Jargon, Legal, Computer, Zip Codes


Source: gcide
Tryst \Tryst\, n. [OE. trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf.
Icel. treysta to make trusty, fr. traust confidence,
security. See {Trust}, n.]

1. Trust. [Obs.]

[1913 Webster]



2. An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time
of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. [Scot. or
Poetic]

[1913 Webster]



{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.

[1913 Webster]



The tenderest-hearted maid
That ever bided tryst at village stile. --Tennyson.

[1913 Webster]


Return to top



Source: gcide
Tryst \Tryst\, v. t. [OE. tristen, trysten. See {Tryst}, n.]

[1913 Webster]


1. To trust. [Obs.]

[1913 Webster]



2. To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an
appointment with. [Scot.] --Burns.

[1913 Webster]


Return to top



Source: gcide
Tryst \Tryst\, v. i.
To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scot.]

[1913 Webster]


Return to top







 

Similar Terms

TermsCountDB
trying2305trans
try1030gcide
tryout734eng-ara
try.531!
trypsin391!
try out374moby-thes
trygve lie305!
trygve halvden lie245trans
tryoglyhus siro230!
try on221trans
tryngites subruficollis207!
try square206trans
try for204!
trypsinogen195trans
try-sail189gcide
trying on157trans
try-on149trans
trypamosoma cruzi131*
tryphosa127trans


** Live results, click here.

   


Search Info

Keyword: Tryst
Database: gcide
Strategy: exact
Server: 1
   

Search limited to 1 database: Search All..

- BOOKMARK US -