Obs. Also 5 trysty. [f. TRIST a.2 + -Y1.] Sad, sorrowful; in quot. 14[?], dark or dull-colored (= SAD a. 8).
c. 1400[?]. Lydg., Æsop’s Fab., III. 88. The sheepe condempned, tristy and pale of hewe.
14[?]. Epiph., in Tundale’s Vis. (1843), 114. Ne forred with armyn nor with trysty gray.
a. 1600[?]. in Ashm., Theat. Chem. (1652), 264. The King was tristy and heavy of cheere.
