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."
... guaranty that its character in this respect should not be changed. They urged that to see slavery recognized upon soil once owned by Mexico would be so abhorrent to that government as it would be to the United States to see the Spanish Inquisition established upon it. Mr. Nicholas F. Trist, the American commissioner, gave a reply which a free Republic reads with increasing amazement. He declared that if the territory proposed to be ceded "were increased tenfold in value, and, in addition to that, covered a foot thick ... — Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
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