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Definition of Trusts
Trust Trust Trust, n. [OE. trust, trost, Icel. traust confidence,
security; akin to Dan. & Sw. tr["o]st comfort, consolation,
G. trost, Goth. trausti a convention, covenant, and E. true.
See True, and cf. Tryst.]
1. Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity,
justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another
person; confidence; reliance; reliance. ``O ever-failing
trust in mortal strength!' --Milton.
Most take things upon trust. --Locke.
2. Credit given; especially, delivery of property or
merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange
without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or
buy goods on trust.
3. Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or
contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief. ``Such
trust have we through Christ.' --2 Cor. iii. 4.
His trust was with the Eternal to be deemed Equal in
strength. --Milton.
4. That which is committed or intrusted to one; something
received in confidence; charge; deposit.
5. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is
confided; responsible charge or office.
[I] serve him truly that will put me in trust.
--Shak.
Reward them well, if they observe their trust.
--Denham.
6. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance;
hope.
O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. --Ps.
lxxi. 5.
7. (Law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the
devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the
profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an
estate held for the use of another; a confidence
respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed
the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the
cestui que trust.
8. An organization formed mainly for the purpose of
regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as,
a sugar trust. [Cant]
Syn: Confidence; belief; faith; hope; expectation.
Trust deed (Law), a deed conveying property to a trustee,
for some specific use.
Trust Trust Trust, v. i.
1. To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence;
to confide.
More to know could not be more to trust. --Shak.
2. To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
I will trust and not be afraid. --Isa. xii. 2.
3. 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 trustto or unto, to depend on; to have confidence in;
to rely on.
They trusted unto the liers in wait. --Judges xx.
36.
Trust Trust Trust, a.
Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.
