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Webster 1913 Edition


Trist

Trist

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[
imp.
Triste
.]
To trust.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Trist

,
Noun.
[See
Tryst
.]
1.
Trust.
[Obs.]
2.
A post, or station, in hunting.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
3.
A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See
Tryst
.
[Obs.]
George Douglas caused a
trist
to be set between him and the cardinal and four lords; at the which
trist
he and the cardinal agreed finally.
Letter dated Sept., 1543.

Trist

,
Adj.
[F.
triste
, L.
tristis
.]
Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
[Obs.]
Fairfax.

Webster 1828 Edition


Trist

TRIST