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 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.
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