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 unto, to depend on; to have confidence in; to rely on.
They trusted unto the liers in wait.
Judges xx. 36.
Trus*tee" (?), n. (Law) A person to whom property is legally committed
in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified
individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for
the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects of
another are attached in a trustee process.
Trustee process (Law), a process by which a creditor may attach his
debtor's goods, effects, and credits, in the hands of a third person; —
called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment,
or factorizing process. [U. S.]
Trus*tee" (?), v. t. 1. To commit (property) to the care of a trustee;
as, to trustee an estate.
2. (Law) To attach (a debtor's wages, credits, or property in the hands
of a third person) in the interest of the creditor. [U. S.]
Trus*tee"ship, n. The office or duty of a trustee.
Trust"er (?), n. 1. One who trusts, or credits.