An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

TRIST, adj. Sad, melancholy.
Douglas.

Fr. triste, Lat. trist-is.

TRYST, TRIST, TRISTE, TRYIST, s.
1. An appointment to meet, S.
Wynt.
To set tryst, to make an appointment to meet, S.
To keep tryst, to fulfil an engagement to meet, S.
To break tryst, to break an engagement, S.
Spalding.
To crack tryst, id.
Z. Boyd.
2. An appointed meeting, S.
Minstr. Bord.
3. The appointed time of meeting.
Wallace.
4. The place appointed, S.
Houlate.
5. A concurrence of circumstances or events.
V. [Traist], v.
Fleming.
6. A trial, an affliction.
K. Hart.

To Tryst, v. a.
1. To engage a person to meet one at a given time and place, S.
Fountainhall.
2. To meet with; used in relation to a divine ordination.
Baillie.

To Tryst, v. n.
1. To agree to meet at any particular time or place, S.
Wodrow.
2. To concur with; used metaph. as to circumstances or events.
Fleming.
3. Often used in a passive sense, in relation to one's meeting with adverse dispensations, S.
Fleming.

Tryster, s. A person who convenes others, fixing the time and place of meeting.
Baillie.

Trysting-place, s. The place of meeting previously appointed, S.
Minstr. Bord.

Tristres, s. pl. The stations allotted to different persons in hunting.
Sir Gawan.

L. B. tristra, id.

To TRODDLE, v. n. To walk with short steps, as a little child does, Ang.
Morison.