Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Trist \Trist\, v. t. & i. [imp. {Triste}.]
   To trust. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Trist \Trist\, n. [See {Tryst}.]
   1. Trust. [Obs.]

   2. A post, or station, in hunting. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   3. A secret meeting, or the place of such meeting; a tryst.
      See {Tryst}. [Obs.]

            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.

Trist \Trist\, a. [F. triste, L. tristis.]
   Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. [Obs.] --Fairfax.