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tryst

  [trist, trahyst]
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–noun
1. an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, esp. one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
2. an appointed meeting.
3. an appointed place of meeting.
–verb (used with object)
4. Chiefly Scot. to make an appointment or arrange a meeting with.
–verb (used without object)
5. Chiefly Scot. to make an appointment or agreement.
Origin:
1325–75; ME triste set hunting-station < OF < Gmc; cf. Goth trausti agreement, arrangement, akin to ME trist confidence (OE *tryst). See trow, trust

Related forms:
tryster, noun

Synonyms:
1, 2. assignation. 1–3. rendezvous.
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tryst   (trĭst)   
n.  
  1. An agreement, as between lovers, to meet at a certain time and place.
  2. A meeting or meeting place that has been agreed on. See Synonyms at engagement.
intr.v.   tryst·ed, tryst·ing, trysts
To keep a tryst.

[Middle English trist, from Old French triste, a waiting place (in hunting); see deru- in Indo-European roots.]
tryst'er n.
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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.]

2. 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.

Tryst

Tryst\, v. t. [OE. tristen, trysten. See Tryst, n.]

1. To trust. [Obs.]

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

Tryst

Tryst\, v. i. To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scot.]
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tryst 
c.1375, from O.Fr. tristre "appointed station in hunting," possibly from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. treysta "to trust;" see trust).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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