bide tryst

English

Verb

bide tryst (third-person singular simple present bides tryst, present participle biding tryst, simple past bode tryst or bided tryst, past participle bidden tryst or bided tryst)

(UK, dialect, archaic) To wait for a person at the appointed place and time.
Synonym: keep tryst
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter VIII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 165:
  "You walk late, sir," said I, as we met a second time.
  "I bide tryste," was the reply, "and so I think do you, Mr Osbaldistone."

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