1. TRYST, N.
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Chiefly Sc. before 19th c.

    1. A mutual appointment, agreement, engagement, covenant. Now rare
or Obs. exc. as in 2.

    2. spec. An appointment or engagement to meet at a specified time
and place. Chiefly in phrases, as to make, {dag}set tryst; to hold, keep
tryst; to break, {dag}crack tryst; to bide tryst, to wait at the
appointed place for the person with whom the appointment is made. Also
fig.

  Only Sc. till 19th c.

    3. An appointed meeting or assembly: = RENDEZVOUS 5. In quot. 1681
fig. `a [divinely appointed] concurrence of circumstances or events'
(Jam.): cf. TRYST v. 4, 5.

    {dag}b. An appointed journey. Obs. rare.

    4. An appointed place of meeting: = RENDEZVOUS 2.

    5. An appointed time; in quot. 1864, an appointed period or term.
rare. ? Obs.

    6. An appointed gathering for buying and selling; a market or fair,
esp. for cattle. Sc. and north. Eng.

    7. attrib., as tryst-place, a trysting-place; tryst-stone, `a stone
anciently erected for marking out a rendezvous' (Jam.); tryst-word, a
password or watchword.

2. TRYST, V.
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orig. and chiefly Sc.

    1. intr. To make an agreement to do something, with a person; esp.
to fix or arrange time and place of meeting with some one.

    2. trans. To engage (a person) to meet one at a given place and
time; to appoint or agree to meet.

  In quot. 1643, loosely used as = meet.

    b. With advb. extension: To invite or entice to a place, or to a
distance.

    c. To engage (a person) to do something; to appoint, agree upon,
arrange, fix (a task). Only in pa. pple.

    3. To appoint, fix (a time, occurrence, etc.).

    b. To bespeak; to arrange for, or order in advance; to engage.

    4. To visit with good or evil; of an experience: to come upon,
befall; `used in relation to a divine ordination' (Jam.).

    {dag}b. To fix upon. Obs. rare{em}1.

    {dag}5. intr. To coincide in time with; to fall together, concur.
Also trans. in causal sense (quot. 1681). Obs.

    6. intr. To keep tryst; to meet at the appointed time and place.

    {dag}7. intr. To treat or negotiate with. Obs.

    Hence {sm}trysted, {sm}trysting ppl. adjs.