GCIDE: Defining Tryst using "exact" search strategy.
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| 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]
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| 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]
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| Source: gcide | Tryst \Tryst\, v. i. To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]
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