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trysting, vbl. n.|ˈtraɪstɪŋ|
[f. tryst v.]
1. The action of the verb tryst, q.v.; a tryst. under trysting = under tryst or agreement.
1633W. Struther True Happiness 79 Since he keepeth both time and place of trysting, let us not be so ingrate as not to meet with him. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 514 After some trysting, and intermediat parleying. 1640R. Baillie Lett. (1841) I. 276 A declaration..that our trysting there [in London] was no submission to the Inglish Parliament. a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I (1851) II. 337 The committee of Estaites..directit him..to hold the Marques wnder trysting whill thay sould raiss wp forces to go vpone him. 1832Mrs. Carlyle in Lett. & Mem. (1903) I. 42, I was fatigued enough by the journey home; still more by the trysting that awaited me here.
2. attrib., as trysting day, trysting ground, trysting place, trysting stile, trysting thorn, trysting tree, etc.
1842Macaulay Horatius i, By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a *trysting day.
1838J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl xx, The customary..*trysting ground for personal combats. 1898Max Müller Auld Lang Syne 195 [In] the Thirty Years' War we find Anhalt the constant trysting ground of the two parties.
1633W. Struther True Happiness 115 Wee come to the Sanctuarie..the Lords *trysting place. a1665W. Guthrie Chr. Gt. Interest ii. viii. (1724) 223 A fit Trysting-place for God and Men to meet into. 1805Scott Eve St. John xliii, At our trysting place, for a certain space, I must wander to and fro. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. v. 426 Those who had horses seem to have reached the same trysting-place by land.
1858E. Capern Ball. & Songs (1859) 100 Meet me..by the *trysting stile.
1793Burns Soldier's Return iii, I pass'd the mill and *trysting thorn, Where Nancy aft I courted.
1802Scott Reiver's Wedding 50 When he came to Falsehope glen, Beneath the *trysting-tree. 1806Chron. in Ann. Reg. (1808) 385/2 A hurricane..destroyed the famous elm tree, which had existed for ages, on the banks of the Teviot, and was known by the name of the Trysting Tree. 1872Holland Marb. Proph. 45, I await her in the dewy gloom Of the old trysting tree. |