The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trust \Trust\, v. i.
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To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
More to know could not be more to trust.
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To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
I will trust and not be afraid.
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To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust.
--Johnson.To trust in, To trust on, to place confidence in,; to rely on; to depend. ``Trust in the Lord, and do good.''
--Ps. xxxvii. 3. ``A priest . . . on whom we trust.''
--Chaucer.Her widening streets on new foundations trust.
--Dryden.To trust to or To trust unto, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on; as, to trust to luck.
They trusted unto the liers in wait.
--Judges xx. 36.