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Trist

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v. t. & i.1.To trust.
[imp. Triste.]
n.1.Trust.
2.A post, or station, in hunting.
3.A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst. See Tryst.
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.
a.1.Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
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I had arrived at that well-known portion of the story where Ethelred, the hero of the Trist, having sought in vain for peaceable admission into the dwelling of the hermit, proceeds to make good an entrance by force.
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