'To bide tryst' definitions:
Definition of 'To bide tryst'
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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.] [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]